Excellent news
A bit less stream-of-conciousness bollox is always a good thing
The Grauniad is shutting three local news blogs and likely laying off the three reporters concerned. The blogs were aimed at Cardiff, Edinburgh and Leeds and had a reporter, or "beatblogger", for each. The sites launched in early 2010 and were meant to develop: "new models for journalism and social engagement through a mix of …
It's interesting that two El Reg posters thought this worth commenting on. I think you're both showing your age.
For those who don't understand, I will explain that grammar books at one time insisted on "few - fewer - fewest" for countable nouns, and "little - less - least" for uncountable ones.
Unfortunately for grammar book writers, their works are not read by native speakers of the language, who suffer from an ailment known as "native speaker intuition". For this reason, respectable modern grammars try to reflect the way the language is actually used, rather than declaring that the way the author speaks is the only natural way, as decreed by God.
Paris, because she has fewer brains.
"Unfortunately for grammar book writers, their works are not read by native speakers of the language, who suffer from an ailment known as "native speaker intuition"."
That said, if you've learned languages that actively make the distinction between "less" and "fewer", you start to miss the counterpart of "more" that works like "fewer" (but in the opposite direction, of course), and want to reintroduce whichever word was in English to serve that purpose.