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« on: 15 February 2020, 15:58:38 »
If I have 'few money' or 'a few money' what is the difference or are both sentences wrong, is what
my doughter asked, Yes we live in Finland and just would like to understand this difficult word..
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« Reply #1 on: 15 February 2020, 16:00:16 »
I say I have little money so therefore I am piss poor. :)
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Re: ..few..
« Reply #2 on: 15 February 2020, 16:11:23 »
Not that English is overcomplicated (!) But "few" is usually for a small number of single items. For example "I have a few chips left" or "few people work in this office".

Something that is a quantity like money or liquid is usually "less". Such as "that car has less power than mine" or "my car has less petrol in than my wife's".

Hope this helps.

(To add to the confusion, the word "more" can be used in both examples. Either "I have more crisps than you" or "that car has more oil in than this one")
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Re: ..few..
« Reply #3 on: 15 February 2020, 16:12:13 »
Few people understand the difference between having little money or no money . It is , of course, better to have lots of money. However n society few people have lots of money, many people have little money. I am one of the few with just enough money..

You could say you have hardly any money or you have very little money.
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Re: ..few..
« Reply #4 on: 15 February 2020, 16:14:38 »
What about at the supermarket ..... 10 items or less? Should apparently be 10 items or fewer  :-\
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« Reply #5 on: 15 February 2020, 16:42:06 »
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Re: ..few..
« Reply #6 on: 15 February 2020, 17:08:45 »
Quote from: polilara on 15 February 2020, 15:58:38
If I have 'few money' or 'a few money' what is the difference or are both sentences wrong, is what
my doughter asked, Yes we live in Finland and just would like to understand this difficult word..

Both sentences are wrong.

You would say "I have hardly any money" , "I don't have any money" or the slang... "I'm skint!" , "I'm brassic" or "I'm potless"  as in Lord Optis example "I haven't a pot to piss in"

Few is an adjective for a small amount of things EG "I have a few apples, but a lot of oranges." 

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/few

One of Winston Churchill's most famous speeches was when he praised the RAF pilots who fought The Battle Of Britain against Germany's Luftwaffe in WW2, and the iconic phrase was "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few". Those WW2 RAF fighter pilots have since and will forever be known as 'The Few'   :)
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Re: ..few..
« Reply #7 on: 15 February 2020, 17:15:12 »
Few is usually followed by a term in the plural, as 'a few' is more than one. A few pounds, a few bits, a few cars. Whilst a few monies sounds grammatically correct, it is a very unusual combination of words and I cannot think of any sentence I could place it in. A 'money' is not really a term one would use, so to pluralise it is wrong.

From the internet:
Is the word monies grammatically correct?
The regular plural form of the noun is moneys. However, monies, an irregular plural form (irregular because it does not follow normal rules for forming plurals), is also common in legal documents and banking. Both of these are correct: The moneys should be disbursed.
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« Reply #8 on: 15 February 2020, 17:21:15 »
However...'a pony' in the singular can be 'a few ponies' in the plural.

Who said English was not difficult?  ;D
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« Reply #9 on: 15 February 2020, 17:29:51 »
A simpler way to put it would that, although as few monies' sounds grammatically correct, there is reall no such thing as 'a money', because money means a collection of things in its singular form, so you are trying to pluralise something which already means 'more than one'.
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Re: ..few..
« Reply #10 on: 15 February 2020, 17:52:12 »
Quote from: STEMO on 15 February 2020, 17:21:15
However...'a pony' in the singular can be 'a few ponies' in the plural.

Who said English was not difficult?  ;D

Or in good old Cockney £25, but then you do not say a "few ponies".  You say "a ton" for £100, or "a monkey" for £500! But all that would really start to confuse anyone outside London! ;D ;D ;)
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« Reply #11 on: 15 February 2020, 18:07:39 »
Pony also means cr*p in Cockney, as in "pony and trap" - just to add to the confusion! :D

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« Reply #12 on: 15 February 2020, 18:43:15 »
Cockney, Yes from School in 70's I remember 'Spoon and Knife' meaning 'Wife'
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« Reply #13 on: 15 February 2020, 18:52:19 »
More usually "Trouble and Strife" - more appropriate, too! :(

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« Reply #14 on: 15 February 2020, 18:54:32 »
Oh, and also "My old Dutch" = Duchess of Fife - wife.

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