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fewer stripes* Sorry, couldn't restrain myself.

• blt 11y ago
  not really, it's the intensity of the stripes rather than their count that is reduced
  • igitur 11y ago
    Ah, yeah, makes sense now.
  • macdice 11y ago
    So 'lesser'?
• anon4 11y ago
  Fewer is a made up word, created by grammar nazis. Consider - if it were a real word and the countable / uncountable distinction was relevant for comparatives in English, we would also have its antonym - manyer.