>Good to see you posting, Grady.
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>One of my grammar pet peeves is "less" instead of "fewer." The express lanes at all the grocery stores I shop at around here have "nn items or less" signs over all the express lanes. I am getting a lot better at letting trivial things go but a little voice in my head still wants to shout, "10 items or FEWER!"
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Interesting. So, is fewer the correct grammar here? All our shops also show '15 items or less'.

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BTW, someone in our exercise group corrected our instructor. She used to say 'tap the foot slow' (or something along the line, I hear it every Friday, but forgot the exact phrase). He corrected her that she should say 'slowly'. Since then she always says 'slowly' and he and she smile.