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tomsmeding 10 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: This map is not upside down

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?

cgh 10 months 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”.

robocat 10 months ago | | [–]

Whom would care fewer?

jamiek88 10 months 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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