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Originally Posted by BookCat
rcentros: Where are you from? (Ends sentence with preposition!) In Britain 'public school' means boarding school; that place where you spend oodles of money in order that your child has a 'superior' education. The other type is a state school. I'm not sure to which you are refering.
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rcentros is American, so he will use the word to mean "state school".
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I can't remember which poster mentioned this, but there is a great deal of difference in the meanings of 'less' and 'fewer'.
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No, there isn't - that's the point
. Grammarians tried to insist that one should use "fewer" for "countable" objects and "less" for "mass" objects (eg "fewer cabbages", but "less water"), but that's an entirely artificial construct that has no basis in actual language usage.