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It drives me nuts when retail stores' express checkout lanes have signs indicating the lanes are for those with "10 items or less."
I'm tempted to write the word "fewer" on a whole bunch of large Post-Its and stick them over the word "less" on each incorrect sign.
I've only seen one chain store's express lane signs written correctly. Menards' signs say, "10 items or fewer." Good for them.
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I haven't read the past few pages so I hope I'm not repeating anyone. A few years ago we had a good-bye card for a co-worker who was leaving.
Someone wrote "chow". /
Perhaps that was someone's way of suggesting that the departing person come back for lunch now and then.
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Originally Posted by PJSinger
It drives me nuts when retail stores' express checkout lanes have signs indicating the lanes are for those with "10 items or less."
I'm tempted to write the word "fewer" on a whole bunch of large Post-Its and stick them over the word "less" on each incorrect sign.
I've only seen one chain store's express lane signs written correctly. Menards' signs say, "10 items or fewer." Good for them.
In my neck of the woods, the only supermarkets that seem to know the difference between, "less", and, "fewer", are Stop & Shop (operated by a Dutch company) and Wegman's. I agree with you, but--in all likelihood--very few of the customers know the difference, anyway.
It drives me nuts when retail stores' express checkout lanes have signs indicating the lanes are for those with "10 items or less."
I'm tempted to write the word "fewer" on a whole bunch of large Post-Its and stick them over the word "less" on each incorrect sign.
I've only seen one chain store's express lane signs written correctly. Menards' signs say, "10 items or fewer." Good for them.
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So when I get to the end of a property's legal description where I pur the acreage, I should no longer write, for example: "and containing 3.4556 acres, more or less." I should now end it with "greater or fewer."
So when I get to the end of a property's legal description where I pur the acreage, I should no longer write, for example: "and containing 3.4556 acres, more or less." I should now end it with "greater or fewer."
I think so, but would like someone smarter to confirm, than myself that is.
Or is it then?
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