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Old 11-27-2025, 12:19 AM   #32
Jay Random
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Originally Posted by iloveicedhockey View Post
I've never understood that particular shibboleth. If they had a greater number of games played, would you say ‘manyer’ instead of ‘more’? Of course not.

‘Fewer’ is an unnecessary word. French gets along just fine with moins for both ‘less’ and ‘fewer’. Spanish does the same with menos. Hell, English itself never had this rule about using ‘fewer’ until a grammarian made it up in the 18th century.
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