Originally Posted by
trainman
A 'mind-boggling' number of people fail to correctly use the word number, rather than amount - a bugbear which threatens to contest the great apostrophe debacle running rife in our society.
"Yep, a mind-boggling amount of pubs – 537 to be exact – share The Red Lion as a name"... seriously? an amount of pubs? not a number of pubs?
Fkn peasants. But it'll all be ok, as, those who consider inference of meaning to be the correct standard for the English language. are in the ascendance. We're doomed...