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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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>>"Less" has had quite a surge.
>>We programmers say "A is less than or equal to B" and by now it would sound weird to say it any other way, but I wonder if that's precise.
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>That's a good point. I've been programming for most of my adult life so "less" has bled over to areas where perhaps it shouldn't.
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>Thinking about it, to me "fewer" is tied to integers. If I'm aiming to be correct in speech I might say "1 is fewer than 2" but to say "1 is fewer than 1.25" seems very awkward even if theoretically correct.

I guess with discussion of topic of less and more, should we mention Lester Moore?
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=19899