The Caffeinated Penguin

musings of a crackpot hacker

Commercials and the decline of the English language

Posted By matt on January 23, 2007

I could be one less…

One less…

one.. less

It's fewer. Morons.

I realize that the language doesn't make sense – more is used for both measured and enumerated quantities, but less is to be used for measured quantities (less sand, less flour, etc.) and fewer is to be used for enumerated quantities (fewer cars, fewer trees, etc.).


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