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>>>The ones that bug me, and you see them everywhere here, are the signs on express lanes at the grocery store: "15 items or less." 15 items or FEWER!]
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>>How many times has that been said, and recently? :-)
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>>Trouble is "fewer" is in danger of becoming extinct in our language "There's less and less people using it all the time" :-)
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>That's the one I've pretty much given up on by now - people vs persons. People is singular, persons is the plural of person. Peoples is the plural of people.
Easy. Persons is a more intimate term, implying not a large number.
e.g at a Chinese restaurant: Set meal A for 4 persons. A lift (elevator) rated for max. 8 persons.
People is more general. "How many people are here today?" But the restauranteur would say "How many persons for the table?"
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.
