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Re: Modern manglings of the English language
Posted By: Paul A., on host 130.95.128.6
Date: Sunday, May 7, 2000, at 06:49:53
In Reply To: Re: Modern manglings of the English language posted by Mousie on Friday, May 5, 2000, at 16:19:21:

> But less or fewer mashed potatoes still confuses me

It's "less mashed potato" if you're referring to the white globby stuff, "fewer mashed potatoes" if you're referring to the number of brown lumps you made the white globby stuff out of.

Does that help?

Paul