http://yoursinwriting.com Fighting whitespace one character at a time. Sun, 18 Dec 2011 20:02:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://yoursinwriting.com/personal/blog/fewer-mistakes-less-confusion/ http://yoursinwriting.com/personal/blog/fewer-mistakes-less-confusion/#comments Sun, 20 Nov 2005 04:58:16 +0000 yoursinwriting http://yoursinwriting.com/?p=239 The media is starting to sound like a bunch of four year olds. Over the past few years, I've noticed an alarming increase in the number of times people use the word "less" when what they mean is "fewer." In conversation, in articles, and even recently, in marketing slogans. It sounds ridiculous, especially coming from the mouths of educated CBC radio personalities who speak for a living. No related posts.]]> http://yoursinwriting.com/personal/blog/fewer-mistakes-less-confusion/feed/ 0