Timeline for Use amount and quantity to replace number?
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| Dec 8, 2023 at 12:26 | comment | added | Denis Howe | For countable things, most sources I can find claim that "amount" is wrong, you should use "number". Alternatives are "count", which suggests that someone has actually counted, or might count, the things; and "quantity", which generally sounds odd for countable things, e.g., the quantity of people in this room. | |
| Nov 4, 2014 at 16:04 | history | answered | kayleeFrye_onDeck | CC BY-SA 3.0 |