...Now you know why they're called a Whinge of Journalists ;-)
>Also, I'm so sorry about this, but I'm about to ramp up into schoolmaster >mode. I do this every now and then, and I *know* it's obnoxious. I'm fully >aware that *most* of you are smarter and better educated than I am and just >as capable and accomplished in your own fields as I am in mine. But the >thing is, see, I'm an editor, and in my field we work with words, and, well, >certain things that may be invisible to you are like fingernails on a >blackboard to me. > >So here goes, I'm lettin' this rip. Please ignore me at will. > >LESS is an amount or volume word. FEWER is a number word. > >You can have less water in a bucket, less brains in your head, and you could >care less. But you have FEWER elements in a lens, ten items or FEWER in the >Express Lane at the supermarket, FEWER than 50 ways to leave your lover. > >Similarly, OVER is a position word. A bridge can be over a brook, a joke can >go right over your head, but it hasn't been OVER a hundred years since the >Tessar was invented; it's been MORE THAN a hundred years since then. > >Nodoby ever get these things right (even network news anchors used "over" >incorrectly), but it drives me crazy anyway. > >You may return to your regular programming...sorry again. (Most of the time, >I'm really getting pretty good at holding my tongue.) ____________________________________ Oh, swipe me! He paints with light! http://www.macads.co.uk/snaps/ ____________________________________ Free UK Macintosh Classified Ads at http://www.macads.co.uk/ ____________________________________
