[thelist] Many or More?

apathetic apatheticgenius at gmail.com
Thu Oct 12 13:07:58 CDT 2006


On 11/10/06, Julian Rickards <julian.rickards at gmail.com> wrote:
> My statement is "most web pages created since the mid-1990's use tables for
> layout" and she wonders if I should have written "many" instead of "most".

Most.

"Many" means a high number but could still be a fairly low percentage
of the total, where "most" means a very high percentage.  Most sites
did indeed use tables for layout, because there were no alternatives.

Tim



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