...and including?

[Doug_Harris]

I thought of that (<), but I reckoned it wouldn't really work
in the supermarket environment -- for the masses. Some would
get it, too many wouldn't. But I could be wrong.
dh

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Marc Velasco
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Subject: Re: ...and including?

mathematization!
number of items <= 10.  done and done... just have to make sure everyone can
understand that.

On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Doug_Harris <cats22 at stny.rr.com> wrote:

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> Nine Items, No More.
> Ten Items, No More.
> Got Nine? This Line
> dh
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> Arnold M. Zwicky
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> On Sep 20, 2008, at 4:50 AM, David Daniel wrote:
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> > From London Telegraph
> >
> > Britain's Tesco supermarket chain is changing the "Ten items or
> > less" signs
> > at express checkout lanes because that's bad grammar. For years,
> > Tesco has
> > resisted suggestions to change it to "Ten items or fewer", but has now
> > accepted a suggestion from the Plain English Campaign to use the
> > wording,
> > "Up to ten items". That wording, a Campaign spokesman said, "avoids
> > any
> > debate."
>
> on the Tesco affair, including the question of what "up to 10 items"
> means:
>
> AZ, 8/31/08: More on less:
>  http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=552
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> AZ, 9/4/08: Still more on less:
>  http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=557
>
> arnold
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