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Do I Use "Less" or "Fewer"?

Do I Use "Less" or "Fewer"?

An episode of The New Yorker's "Comma Queen" video series featuring Mary Norris explaining the grammatical difference between the two terms.

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    “Mary has done it again! I was just writing something and realized I didn't know whether to use "less than" or "fewer than." In less than two minutes (time is an exception), she resolved it once and for all. Long live the Comma Queen!”

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