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Originally Posted by bookman156
You have a lot of faith in editors. Most I know do not even know the difference between 'less' and 'fewer', not to mention 'the past ten years' and 'the last ten years'. Some editors struggle with genitive apostrophes. And as for the Oxford comma, well, you're expecting a lot of this transition of editorial skills to hypertext.
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Ok, I know the difference between "less" and "fewer" (I complained in my local supermarket about their checkout sign that said "10 items or less"), but I have to confess that I'd regard "the last ten years" and "the past ten years" as interchangeable. Can you enlighten me?