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Perry Bible Fellowship

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This is a community dedicated to the webcomic known as the Perry Bible Fellowship, created by Nicholas Gurewitch.

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New comics posted whenever they're posted to the site (rarer nowadays but still ongoing). Old comics posted every day until we're caught up

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Same with less vs. fewer:

According to the Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage this rule was first introduced in a rather tentative form in 1770, when the grammarian Robert Baker stated that less 'is most commonly used as speaking of a Number; where I should think Fewer would be better'.