Faldage wept: *Ænigma doesn't even recognize ye.

I hope you're not therefore implying, based on what you said earlier in the same post, that AEnigma can therefore be considered to be a native speaker of English!

I would say "There is less sand on the beach this year", but "There are fewer oranges on the plate".

To me, "less" is used for an indefinable quantity. "Fewer" is used for something which you can enumerate (or would be able to if you needed to). Also note that I use the plural form of "to be" with "fewer".

I'm not trying to say that I'm right and that's that, just pointing out how I was taught to use them.


The idiot also known as Capfka ...