It's not a correction, because "less" is also correct for countable things [1]. "Less" has been used this way for the entire existence of English, and the mist

It's not a correction, because "less" is also correct for countable things [1]. "Less" has been used this way for the entire existence of English, and the mistaken idea that it's wrong is relatively recent. [1] http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003775.html http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003775.h...