Babel explained this to me on Monday evening, and it was so helpful that I thought I’d paste it here so that I stood more chance of remembering it. I’m already doing woefully badly at remembering the difference between fewer and less, you and me v. you and I, but I am trying… (more…)

This post isn’t actually really written by me; it’s more sort of written by Babel Last night he was correcting a post I had written for the JEBsite, and pulled me up on a couple of matters of grammar. He’s a little bit obsessive about grammar Anyway, one of the errors I made was something I wouldn’t even have known was an error, and so he was obliged to explain it to me in detail. I found the explanation very interesting because it was genuinely news to me, and so I thought I’d post it here; firstly, so that I don’t forget it and secondly in case I’m not the only person who didn’t know this already. (more…)