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rob, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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And if you say "less" when you in fact mean "fewer" I get dreadfully, tiresomely pedantic.(, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 11:57, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)
I'm being a dreadful pedant again. (Partly because TGB likes to wind me up over this one)"Less" is used for continuous quantities, whereas "fewer" is used for individual items. So, e.g., if you put a smaller quantity of cereal is the bowl, that would be "less cereal," whereas if you put two types of cereal in the bowl instead of three, that would be "fewer types of cereal."
/pedant crow is pedantic, and the sort of person driven to vitriolic, stabby rage by the checkouts labelled as "five items or less."
(, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:06, Reply)
I know that,I was saying sorry, what? cos I edited and now your post doesn't make sense.
/psychochomp
(, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:07, Reply)
Arse.A little observation would have saved me a lot of typing there, wouldn't it?
(, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:09, Reply)
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