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		d1sxeyes 54 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025) That's not really true, at least, outside of prescriptivist linguistics. > Less has been used to modify plural nouns since the days of King Alfred https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/less More reading on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fewer_versus_less

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