A few days ago, one erudite Charioteer gently tweaked the tail of another, by querying her use of less, where prescriptively she should have used fewer.
Well, we all know the rules, don’t we?
Fewer for countable nouns, and less for non-countable nouns.
Well actually – no.
And to compound the problem, non-countable nouns are themselves something of a movable feast. Continue reading “Less or fewer? What a mass!”
Boadicea's Chariot 