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Originally Posted by Katsunami
Edit: Ah. Fewer is for multiple items, and less is for single items.
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Not quite. Fewer is for discrete items, e.g. bars of chocolate. Less is for continuous items, e.g. chocolate.
"I need to eat fewer bars of chocolate" or "I need to eat less chocolate".
But it's not really important. It just doesn't sound right (to me) when the wrong one is used.
The most interesting bit is that there are not two words when the comparison is to something bigger. More is used in both cases.
"I want to eat more bars of chocolate" and "I want to eat more chocolate".