Language Snob

Ok...it's fewer not less and it's more than not over.

MORE THAN 50 people said that they loved my show.
FEWER THAN 6 people showed up for my writing workshop.

If it were OVER 50 people, then something would have to actually be jumping OVER those 50 people while saying "I love you show, Pandora!"

And if it were LESS than 6 people who showed up to my show than those people who showed up -- would be lesser in quality in some way -- perhaps they would be six people who were 2/3rds as tall as a group of 'regularly heighted' people. Or maybe they were Burger King-eating, La Leche League members... (oh, my prejudices do come out when my ire is raised over language!).

I don't have much else to say about this. It's been coming up a lot so I figured I'd say something about it. Go ahead, keep saying over and less, I'll keep saying more than and fewer. I'm sure we'll all get along no matter what, in the end.

:-) Love,

Pandora