One of my (many) bugbears is the difference between "less" and "fewer".
"Less people" is bad, "fewer people" is good, because you can count
people ...
Chris
On 17 Jan 2007, at 19:26, Gary Holder (c) wrote:
> I acknowledge I am the one in error for my own "pedantic word
> pair"; that
> is--NO ONE else agrees with me. For me, the pair is "bring" and
> "take". To
> me, "bring" implies, "towards or with me", while "take" implies
> "towards
> somewhere else, away from me". But EVERYONE else seems OK with,
> "Bring that
> item to that place", or "Take that here, please."
>
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