tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6294141728297871688.post4076266053086733481..comments2024-03-26T07:09:21.701+00:00Comments on linguistlaura: Not as much hedgehogsLaurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15599735346062899537noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6294141728297871688.post-12533023868286318672015-10-23T11:29:37.367+01:002015-10-23T11:29:37.367+01:00If I were editing the text I'd replace the ...If I were editing the text I'd replace the 'less' with 'fewer', but I don't consider it ungrammatical (I have a post on this in the works). It is slightly surprising, though. If I were shown the text with the bold terms obscured, and told that one of them was 'less', I'd have guessed it was before 'bumblebees', since bees seem more easily conceived of as a mass entity than do sparrows or hedgehogs.Stanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03386875624025404452noreply@blogger.com