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Someone that's driving me mad......

neverdespairgirl
neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
in Debate House Prices & the Economy
I've read it about 20 times today (and 20 times a day for the last week or so)...

"less people buying houses...."

It's FEWER.


Less sugar. Less rice. Less bread. Fewer people. Fewer bags of sugar. Fewer dogs!
...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
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  • Exocet
    Exocet Posts: 744 Forumite
    I probably always get it wrong. Fortunately I think more people are buying houses so no danger at the moment.

    http://www.gcse.com/english/less.htm
  • nearlynew
    nearlynew Posts: 3,800 Forumite
    edited 11 August 2010 at 9:11PM
    With inflation running so higher I can't afford to buy as many stuff at the supermarket so I always use the "5 items or less till".
    "The problem with quotes on the internet is that you never know whether they are genuine or not" -
    Albert Einstein
  • tomterm8
    tomterm8 Posts: 5,892 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Something.

    Not Someone.
    “The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens
  • Graham_Devon
    Graham_Devon Posts: 58,560 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    It could be someone. It might be me. Is it me? I'd like to know if it's me. Can you tell me if it's me :)

    I haven't got a clue what I write half the time :)
  • Dirk_Rambo
    Dirk_Rambo Posts: 387 Forumite
    neverdespairgirl wrote: »
    "less people buying houses...."
    tut tut to correct you further, round my way its "ALOT less people buying houses...."
  • Badger_Lady
    Badger_Lady Posts: 6,264 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic Combo Breaker
    A guy came to give a presentation a while back... he had a PhD in Russian literature (and is British). He kept saying "Less people..." and it drove me insane all the way through! I could not take the man seriously as an intelligent human being!!! :rotfl:
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  • Exocet
    Exocet Posts: 744 Forumite
    Badger_Lady wrote: »
    A guy came to give a presentation a while back... he had a PhD in Russian literature (and is British). He kept saying "Less people..." and it drove me insane all the way through! I could not take the man seriously as an intelligent human being!!! :rotfl:
    Please don't take this the wrong way, but sometimes I think people can get a bit too hung up on the exact correct use of English stuff like words an' all that. Now if he had said less dudes then I wouldn't take him seriously but LESS and FEWER is not something I get right meself.
  • inneed
    inneed Posts: 403 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts Combo Breaker
    Dirk_Rambo wrote: »
    tut tut to correct you further, round my way its "ALOT less people buying houses...."

    Yes - that sounds much more betterer!
    Always look on the bright side of life ....la la la la la la la la
  • nearlynew
    nearlynew Posts: 3,800 Forumite
    And anyway, shoudn't it be 'someone who's driving me mad'
    "The problem with quotes on the internet is that you never know whether they are genuine or not" -
    Albert Einstein
  • nembot
    nembot Posts: 1,234 Forumite
    I'm a layman of the english language and probably guilty of the "less" & "fewer" mistake, but my personal gripe is "losing" & "loosing" arrrgh!

    Just need to let loose, because I'm losing my will to spell correctly ;)
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