A Conversation for Choosing a Supermarket Checkout
Ten Items or
TikiGod Started conversation Jul 12, 2001
I have noticed that the vast majority of "express" lanes, as they are called, are mislabelled. The signs dangling above these queues of doom all proclaim "Ten Items or Less," which is incorrect because "items" is a count term, and therefore "fewer" is the appropriate word, not less.
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