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Not so fast. The traditional wisdom is that “less” applies to nouns we can’t count and “fewer” applies to ones we can. You have “fewer grains of salt” in a dish but you have “less salt in the dish.” Money is a no count noun. You don’t have 1 money, 7 money etc. so you have “less money.” Dollar is a count noun. You have 1 dollar, 100 dollars, etc. so you have “fewer dollars.” I. Theory anyway. However...

... Something that is $75 dollars isn’t “fewer than $100.” We say it is “less than $100.” Because while it is dollars- we are referring to the uncountable concept of cost and not the dollars themselves. So one could argue that in this case, when we discuss the words which do or do not adhere to I before E, we are referring to an uncountable number as well. In concept, vocabulary cannot be counted- but more so in the English language where words can be created or destroyed, spellings can be changed through convention- words on a page are a countable noun but words as a concept are not countable and thus... “less” applies to the discussion of the abstract concept of English language.

The Oxford English Dictionary lists over 171 thousand current English words- over 40 thousand “obsolete” words... but linguists estimate well over one million words in the English language. It is not a number any one definitive source has authoritatively compiled and thus- no total exists, and we can’t count what we do not know exists can we?

But he said there is a c in thief

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