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Comment by d1sxeyes

13 hours ago

That's not really true, at least, outside of prescriptivist linguistics.

> Less has been used to modify plural nouns since the days of King Alfred

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/less

More reading on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fewer_versus_less

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