"Make sure the fewest amount of people are on set that day, then celebrate what you've got." - Gretchen Mol, in British Esquire, on filming nude scenes
Gretchen has made a common error in diction: she has used "amount" in place of "number." The word "amount" is used to refer to uncountable nouns; people are countable, […]
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