Thank you Chris.
Never too old to learn.
2016-10-15 7:23 GMT+02:00 ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Not if you can count them, Dharma. It’s “less” for quantities, “fewer”
> for numbers.
>
> Chris
>
> > On 15 Oct 16, at 03:42, Dharma Singh <dharmasingh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Shouldn't that be *less *?
> >
> > [Well so far for my 55 years old English (not American) school books ]
> >
> > 2016-10-14 22:14 GMT+02:00 Charles Geilfuss <charles.geilfuss@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:charles.geilfuss@xxxxxxxxx>>:
> >
> >> Very true. Never let clarity stand in the way of sales. My pet peeve is
> a
> >> toothpaste commercial (forget the brand, so already they failed) that
> >> claims "three times fewer cavities" when they obviously mean 1/3 fewer
> >> cavities. Arghhhhh.
>
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