> Mike, you need a better dictionary. > > Definitions 8 & 9 are not positional. "OVER a hundred years " is fine. > See definition 3 for LESS.
Ah, yes, well, dictionaries have been going to hell ever since that damned liberal subversive Webster's Third came out. AHED is actually one of the better ones, but did you know that the allowable uses of words in AHED were literally decided upon by committee? No kidding. They convened a usage panel, and permitted permissive definitions if they happened to be acceptable to some predetermined percentage of the panel members. I doubt very much that Webster's Second (of sainted memory) would approve of "In business for over 25 years" (which phrase I happened to just read on the B&H home page) and I don't either. "Over" for "more than" is of course in such widespread use that any resistance is futile; that battle is lost. But that doesn't mean I'm going to be able to stop wincing when I hear it. --Mike P.S. As Bill from IL says, less words, more Pentax. Sorry again for all this, everyone.
