"fewer" + MASS

[Marc Velasco]

I suspect it was a bad edit, a post hastily dispatched...

likely mean "fewer power hitters."

At least I think that's a sufficiently simple explanation.


On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> ---------------------- Information from the mail header
> -----------------------
> Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Poster:       Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject:      Re: "fewer" + MASS
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> 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:
> > ---------------------- Information from the mail header
> -----------------------
> > Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> > Poster:       Jim Parish <jparish at SIUE.EDU>
> > Subject:      "fewer" + MASS
> >
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Jim Parish
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
> >
>
>
>
> --
> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> -----
> -Mark Twain
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
>

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org