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 ...

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.

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 ...

Have you ever seen that sign at the grocery store counter that reads “ten items or less” and sputtered, “It should say ‘ten items or fewer!’” and had your monocle fall off in a spasm of ...