Comments on: Fewer is more http://www.abccopywriting.com/blog/2009/12/17/less-and-fewer/ Advice and reflections from a freelance copywriter Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:12:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Hayley Chalmers http://www.abccopywriting.com/blog/2009/12/17/less-and-fewer/comment-page-1/#comment-6508 Hayley Chalmers Fri, 02 Sep 2011 11:30:43 +0000 http://www.abccopywriting.com/blog/?p=460#comment-6508 I think you are being very charitable to suggest that they did it on purpose. I bet they didn't! Why don't you ask them? Make them explain themselves. Not a day can go by when I don't see something written incorrectly - or as Lynda says - hear the BBC allowing presenters to say 'I' when they mean 'me' and vice versa. Don't get me started on the use of 'myself' when they just need 'I' or actually mean 'me'. Aren't journalists supposed to know this stuff? I think you are being very charitable to suggest that they did it on purpose. I bet they didn’t! Why don’t you ask them? Make them explain themselves.

Not a day can go by when I don’t see something written incorrectly – or as Lynda says – hear the BBC allowing presenters to say ‘I’ when they mean ‘me’ and vice versa. Don’t get me started on the use of ‘myself’ when they just need ‘I’ or actually mean ‘me’. Aren’t journalists supposed to know this stuff?

]]> By: Lynda Freebrey http://www.abccopywriting.com/blog/2009/12/17/less-and-fewer/comment-page-1/#comment-6506 Lynda Freebrey Fri, 02 Sep 2011 10:53:49 +0000 http://www.abccopywriting.com/blog/?p=460#comment-6506 Oh, what is happening to our language? My partner can often be heard shouting at the TV "FEWER not LESS" as the incorrect usage of less and fewer drives him mad ! Neither of us can believe the standard of English used by BBC journalists who cannot pronounce words (secertary, battry, garige, to name but a few), or who use the incorrect words or just get things wrong grammatically. If they get it wrong, what chance is there for the rest of us ? The written word is even worse and every day we squirm when we see the mistakes. Who would have thought when somebody actuall gets it right? Our local Waitrose have a sign up at one of their checkouts: "Fewer than 6 items" Bravo Waitrose, we say! Oh, what is happening to our language?

My partner can often be heard shouting at the TV “FEWER not LESS” as the incorrect usage of less and fewer drives him mad !

Neither of us can believe the standard of English used by BBC journalists who cannot pronounce words (secertary, battry, garige, to name but a few), or who use the incorrect words or just get things wrong grammatically. If they get it wrong, what chance is there for the rest of us ?

The written word is even worse and every day we squirm when we see the mistakes. Who would have thought when somebody actuall gets it right? Our local Waitrose have a sign up at one of their checkouts: “Fewer than 6 items” Bravo Waitrose, we say!

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]]> By: lewis_duck http://www.abccopywriting.com/blog/2009/12/17/less-and-fewer/comment-page-1/#comment-189 lewis_duck Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:11:12 +0000 http://www.abccopywriting.com/blog/?p=460#comment-189 More napkins. Less planet. Fewer crap copywriters. More napkins. Less planet. Fewer crap copywriters.

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