EDIT: you guys have dug up some truly horrible pisstakes :D Thank you for those.
To the serious folk - relax a little. This is Mildly Infuriating, not I'm dying if this doesn't stop. As a non-native speaker I was taught a certain way to use the language. The rules were not written down by me, nor the teachers - it was done by the native folk. Peace!
The thing I find interesting is how the mixing of less and fewer, is broadly accepted, whereas nobody tends to use ‘much’ and ‘many’ interchangeably.
I’m not quite sure why much/many is do conserved when fewer/less isn’t.
That’s kinda easy though because much fewer people use less then many.
Less then many?
So to use that in a sentence “I have less many testicles than the average cat”
*then
*now?
*than
*thon
I like to use “not much” instead of “not many” whenever I can.
gonna start saying “not many” when people ask me “what’s up”