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larvatus ([personal profile] larvatus) wrote2010-04-06 09:38 am

don’t mass your count nouns

“Less than half of all American adults ever read a book after leaving school”, writes Julia Hanna on behalf of Harvard Business School. And had she belonged to the right half, she would have known that it’s “Fewer than…”.

Crossposted to [info]larvatus, [info]harvard_u, [info]elitistasshat, and [info]grammar_whores.

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