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Wrong. "Less" instead of "fewer" has been standard English for over 300 years.
by throwaway1967 11y ago
Wrong. "Less" instead of "fewer" has been standard English for over 300 years.
- yarrel 11y agoApparently so but I've not heard it before and it's jarring. Everyone else is clearly marching out of step.
- pc2g4d 11y agoI always thought "less" preceded mass nouns and "fewer" preceded count nouns. "less acres" feels slightly sloppy to me. But we all understood what was meant, so maybe it doesn't matter.