Style matters #3: Where did ‘fewer’ get to?
We’d always been taught that decreasing numbers of things that could be counted – such as objects or people – were fewer in number, while falling volumes – such as […]
We’d always been taught that decreasing numbers of things that could be counted – such as objects or people – were fewer in number, while falling volumes – such as […]
While working as a sub-editor, an erudite colleague once pointed out to me that while we say – and more often write – the word swathe (which rhymes with lathe) as […]
How many times have you seen a sentence that contained a phrase such as “We were attacked by a myriad of insects and …” OR “They loved him in a myriad of […]