>>And even BBC news reporters, once the bastion of the language, are saying "... the amount of people/years/other quantifiable subjects, etc ..."
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>I yell back at the radio or TV over that one: NUMBER of people.
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>Tamar
Tell me about it!
- 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.