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| Thread ID: 128474 | 2012-12-22 04:37:00 | Another pet hate to get you going! | Richard (739) | PC World Chat |
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| 1319750 | 2012-12-23 02:22:00 | "the Police say ... ") They do, annoyingly. They say "the female at x location", or "the male over there". The female what? Giraffe? Iguana? Something wrong with saying man or woman? Or boy or girl? |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1319751 | 2012-12-23 02:50:00 | And 'less' when they mean 'fewer' Such as "There were less people on the bus today." Less is for quantity, fewer is for number. | Richard (739) | ||
| 1319752 | 2012-12-23 06:51:00 | And 'less' when they mean 'fewer' Such as "There were less people on the bus today." Less is for quantity, fewer is for number. I'm not with you there, you could accurately say "there was a smaller quantity of people on the bus today" The two seem interchangeable to me in this applictaion. Or to put it another way, the number of people on the bus IS a quantity. Fewer = less than surely? |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1319753 | 2012-12-23 07:04:00 | Oxford Dictionary: Less' or 'fewer'? People often don’t know when to use less and when to use fewer in a sentence . Here’s how to get it right . Use fewer if you’re referring to people or things in the plural (e . g . houses, newspapers, dogs, students, children) . For example: People these days are buying fewer newspapers . Fewer students are opting to study science-related subjects . Fewer than thirty children each year develop the disease . Use less when you’re referring to something that can’t be counted or doesn’t have a plural (e . g . money, air, time, music, rain) . For example: It’s a better job but they pay you less money . People want to spend less time in traffic jams . Ironically, when I’m on tour, I listen to less music . Less is also used with numbers when they are on their own and with expressions of measurement or time, e . g . : His weight fell from 18 stone to less than 12 . Their marriage lasted less than two years . Heath Square is less than four miles away from Dublin city centre |
WalOne (4202) | ||
| 1319754 | 2012-12-23 09:10:00 | Some of those weather presenters on TV1 annoy me. They pronounce Timaru as tee maru and Taupo as tor por. | QW. (15883) | ||
| 1319755 | 2012-12-24 07:14:00 | When I came to NZ 40years ago it took me a while to realise that "Thats it over there eh" (EH is pronounced A) meant "is that it over there?" Another one, Why is not "mine" used instead of "my one"? |
gradebdan (2186) | ||
| 1319756 | 2012-12-24 08:29:00 | I was watching TV1 news tonight until some toss header said "across the ditch", screwed up toss header needs some basic education I learned at primary school. So then I switched over to TV3 news | Frank_sumbody (16923) | ||
| 1319757 | 2012-12-24 08:43:00 | The Grammar Nazi Here (youtu.be) | wmoore (6009) | ||
| 1319758 | 2012-12-24 19:07:00 | Hilary Barry saying 'twenny' instead of 'twenty'. | user (1404) | ||
| 1319759 | 2012-12-24 19:08:00 | Whom would like him for a boss? | Bobh (5192) | ||
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