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Originally Posted by footfootfoot
One of my nails on the blackboard things is when people use the word ‘less’ with countable nouns instead of ‘fewer’.
As in, “there’s less people...”.
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Y'all may have heard that I've been editing the 25th edition of a major med school book. One would think that the book would be pretty clean, gramatically, after having been reviewed at least 24 times in the previous years.
One would be mistaken.
Of note, "Less people are getting married . . . "
