More Problems with Words and Punctuation

A number of people have written in to express their anger over various misuses of the apostrophe - and also to ask why we don't do something about other misuses (of words this time) which annoy them.
Some of these abuses have also annoyed our Chairman, John Richards, for years!

The confusion over LESS and FEWER

The rule concerning this is so simple that there should be no excuse for getting it wrong!

LESS is used when the number referred to is general
FEWER is used when the number refers to individual items

Examples:

Never, never use: There are ... less cars, less people, less dresses.

Please let us have your questions, comments and views on these and other abuses by way of our Message Board