Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site jhunix.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!ucbvax!ucdavis!lll-crg!gymble!umcp-cs!aplcen!jhunix!ins_akaa From: ins_akaa@jhunix.UUCP (Kenneth Ada Arromdee) Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: Is English decaying rapidly? Message-ID: <1044@jhunix.UUCP> Date: Sun, 27-Oct-85 12:33:41 EST Article-I.D.: jhunix.1044 Posted: Sun Oct 27 12:33:41 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 30-Oct-85 04:45:05 EST References: <1427@cae780.UUCP> <10600197@uiucdcs> <197@bnrmtv.UUCP> Reply-To: ins_akaa@jhunix.ARPA (Kenneth Ada Arromdee) Organization: Johns Hopkins Univ. Computing Ctr. Lines: 16 In article <197@bnrmtv.UUCP> perkins@bnrmtv.UUCP (Henry Perkins) writes: >A recurring source of irritation to me is all the supermarket signs which >say "x items or less" rather than "x items or FEWER". >{hplabs,amdahl,3comvax}!bnrmtv!perkins --Henry Perkins That is shorthand for "X items or less than X items". It isn't a mistake. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you know the alphabet up to 'k', you can teach it up to 'k'. Kenneth Arromdee BITNET: G46I4701 at JHUVM and INS_AKAA at JHUVMS CSNET: ins_akaa@jhunix.CSNET ARPA: ins_akaa%jhunix@hopkins.ARPA UUCP: ...{decvax,ihnp4,allegra}!seismo!umcp-cs!aplvax!aplcen!jhunix!ins_akaa