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Do you have less slugs this year?

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  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 9,052
    Palustris said:
    We have FEWER molluscs leading to LESS damage on the plants.
    There speaks the pedant.

    A true pedant might suggest the correct use is 'less gastropods' but I wouldn't know about that sort of thing :#
    Tradition is just peer pressure from dead people
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 28,834
    Fewer gastropods WE!! If you can count them it's FEWER, if it's an amorphous mass or a concept or a situation it's LESS.  eg, less cloudy, fewer clouds;  less crowded, fewer people; less slug damage, fewer gastropods.........
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
  • B3B3 Posts: 24,477
    When you're a pedant, resistance is futile!
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • FireFire Posts: 17,116
    Do pedants have less friends?
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 9,052
    Obelixx said:
    Fewer gastropods WE!! If you can count them it's FEWER, if it's an amorphous mass or a concept or a situation it's LESS. 
    Fewer slugs implies that they're not an infinite plague though.
    Tradition is just peer pressure from dead people
  • Guernsey Donkey2Guernsey Donkey2 Posts: 6,713
    I am agreeing with you DampGardenMan, less rain, less slimy gastropods,  we do have more hedgehogs this year, but according to some reports I have read, they don't eat them anyway.  So I will put it down to less rain for now.
  • B3B3 Posts: 24,477
    Or fewer raindrops
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DampGardenManDampGardenMan Posts: 1,054
    Guernsey Donkey2 said:
    I am agreeing with you DampGardenMan, less rain, less slimy gastropods
    Less rain, fewer gastropods, more rain, more gastropods. So why isn't there a different "more" for enumerable items, hmmm? :)

    Fortunately we all know what everybody means ...
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,129
    edited May 2019
    Anyone care for a sortie into a number or an amount of the blighters? 

    Can’t say we have fewer snails this year but, like Obelixx, I launch them across the road and into the hedgerow. 

    I’m tempted by one of these
    https://www.niwaki.com/store/niwaki-forged-trowel/
    Rutland, England
  • Crazyfroglady...and.now.newts.Crazyfroglady...and.now.newts. Posts: 80
    We were only saying the other day how we haven’t seen as many slugs. Our neighbour said that they didn’t fair very well in last years hot weather.
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