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From: grw@fortune.UUCP (Glenn Wichman)
Newsgroups: net.misc,net.nlang,net.flame
Subject: Making less grammatical mistakes
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Date: Fri, 11-May-84 16:13:05 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 11 16:13:05 1984
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[What are you reading ME for?]

	Another common mistake on the net and in the world is
    the use of the word "less" where the word "fewer" is appropriate.
    The most recent use of it that I saw was:

	"There would be less KGB agents..."

	Anything that comes in units (KGB agents, Donny Osmond lookalikes,
    Wombats, etc.) should be modified with the word "fewer"; anything that
    comes in a mass (like Rice Pudding, Time, Thyme, and Wombat purree)
    should be modified with the word "less".  "More" is the correct 
    opposite for both words, whence the confusion.

			    No cute signoff,
						-Glenn