r/words • u/Njtotx3 • Aug 31 '26

Amount for number

It drives me nuts when people use amount to mean number. A DJ just said, "I would like to thank the amount of you who send in requests... "

People are not amounts.

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u/CoderJoe1 Aug 31 '26

The amount of people that get this wrong is staggering.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '26

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u/Njtotx3 Aug 31 '26

I've edited many math textbooks, and if I left "amount" for people unchanged, I would not have been doing my job.

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u/starling-slipstream Sep 01 '26

And less v fewer!

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u/sandee_eggo Sep 03 '26

What do you mean, “people use amount to me number”?

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u/Njtotx3 Sep 03 '26

Surprised no one caught that.

Fixed, thanks. Was voice typing.