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tomsmeding
268 days ago
But... it's a title, not a sentence. Many book titles are even a single word, which is even less a sentence. Why would a grammatical convention for sentences apply to book titles?
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cgh
268 days ago
Heck if I know. All I know is I am a lot more worked up about the misuse of “less” when the correct word is “fewer”.
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robocat
268 days ago
Whom would care fewer?
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jamiek88
268 days ago
Which itself was simply the preference of a spinster who wrote a grammar book.
English has no rules like that, only preferences.
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