posted                   

quote:

---

Originally posted by Shmuel:
Oh, and my pet peeve: grocery express checkout lanes reading "10 items or fewer." Too fussy; "less" is a perfectly respectable modifier. (On the other hand, "10 items or less" satisfies me but horrifies those of the Miss Thistlebottom persuasion. "Up to 10 items" can be construed as imposing a limit of 9. The only safe choice may be "no more than 10 items," which is too wordy. The solution? Abolish express lanes. They're not very useful anyway.)

---

When can we expect your new book "Properties of Grocery Lanes"?

I'm going to copy that down somewhere.

Posts: 1236 | Registered: Mar 2002  |  IP: Logged |