Research for the Standard English Curriculum in High Schools
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Jul 18, 2012
Here is my reasoning:
When I was in high school, English teachers seemed to make up their own definitions without regard to the dictionary. In the less v. fewer instance, they thought that saying one was for amounts and the other for quantity was sufficient to tell when to use less or fewer. The dictionaries I've read use amount to define quantity, and quantity to define amount. That makes them synonyms, which everyone knew anyway. This was a pretty useless endeavor, differentiating two terms using synonyms, and one of the terms fell out of use.
Lately, some teachers are saying "If you count it, use fewer." Brilliant idea. Too bad they didn't do that over the last fifty years.
You may now flame the retired science teacher.
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