That's not really true, at least, outside of prescriptivist linguistics. > Less has been used to modify plural nouns since the days of King Alfred https://www

That's not really true, at least, outside of prescriptivist linguistics. > Less has been used to modify plural nouns since the days of King Alfred https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/less https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/less More reading on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fewer_versus_less https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fewer_versus_less