"fewer" + MASS

[Wilson Gray]

Just between you and I, I thik that you're right.

-Wilson

On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Jim Parish <jparish at siue.edu> wrote:
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> On a baseball blog that I follow, I just ran across a reference to "one
> team with fewer power than its opponents". Spillover from a
> misunderstanding of the usual pedantry about "less"/"fewer", I suppose.
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> Jim Parish
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