Not long ago, I caught a snippet of a radio report about flooding in Colorado. Here’s the first sentence I heard: “The number has dropped to fewer than 600 missing.” When people use the word “fewer” ...

Faithful reader Henry Smith of East Hartford writes to ask about the legitimacy of the phrase “many fewer,” as in “Skeptics persist, but there are many fewer of them.” His concern is understandable.

Fewer than eight dollars can be exactly seven dollars or exactly six dollars. But it can’t be seven dollars and 48 cents. Distances work the same way. Fewer than 3 miles means 2 miles, one mile or ...

Avid Game of Thrones fans may remember Stannis Baratheon’s commitment to correcting the word less to fewer. The habit no doubt warmed the heart of every fussy grammarian watching the show—and maybe ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. More and more, fewer people use “less” and “fewer” the way the language gods intended. “There are less people here ...

Apologies for adding to the list of things to be scared of this Halloween season. But I’m spooked by a new report that found fewer and fewer Americans are paying attention to the news. Especially with ...

More often than not in grocery stores and other retail establishments, you'll see express lanes with signs specifying that they're for purchases of "X items or less." Hold on to your handheld device, ...