Yeah, the confusion in the top example probably had to do with the placement of the adjective–AFTER as opposed to before the noun, and separated by “or.” Thus making it seem less adjectival.
Or is the issue plain unconsciousness of the difference between “fewer” and “less”?
CS – Keep posting your great photos and stories. You enliven the blog. An English lesson now and then is probably healthy for all of us long out of school.
Montague Street Key Food: wrong.
Trader Joe’s: right.
As a journalism professor often reminded us: “fewer turds, less shit”
Yeah, the confusion in the top example probably had to do with the placement of the adjective–AFTER as opposed to before the noun, and separated by “or.” Thus making it seem less adjectival.
Or is the issue plain unconsciousness of the difference between “fewer” and “less”?
Grammar is the least of Key Food’s worries.
The only thing that springs to mind are these 3 letters… “WFC”
NOOC: “WFC”–Wisconsin Fried Chicken?
key foods on montague is terrible
Claude, I think that’s “who f’ing cares?” although I suspect you may be making some kind of reference to the whole Obama Fried Chicken brouhaha.
“X items or less” has become idiomatic and is perfectly clear. Has everyone lost their mind?
(Don’t bother complaining that “everyone” takes a singular pronoun. Clearly, it doesn’t always, and this has been true for hundreds of years.)
CS – Keep posting your great photos and stories. You enliven the blog. An English lesson now and then is probably healthy for all of us long out of school.
For a Really Long Time (years?) Key Food had a sign which said, “Welcome to Brookly Heights”. About 6 months ago, they added a very small “n” to it.
to quote a well-intentioned remark on the rules of grammer – “this is something up with which i will not put.”
GrammAr Mrs. Fink, only Kelsey applies to the alternate.