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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
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10 days less pregnant

I don't know if it is correct to say '10 days less pregnant'. How would you phrase it?
I am 10 days less pregnant than I thought. I thought my due date was October 10, but it's actually October 20th.

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I'd say that my due date is 10 days later than I'd originally thought. People care about when the baby will arrive. Most would prefer to not think about the conception.

— BarbaraPA

  • I'd say that my due date is 10 days later than I'd originally thought.
  • People care about when the baby will arrive.
  • Most would prefer to not think about the conception.
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I'd say that my due date is 10 days later than I'd originally thought.

People care about when the baby will arrive. Most would prefer to not think about the conception.
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Pregnancy is a medical condition. One is either pregnant or not. Term is the duration of a human pregnancy. A person can be further from the 'due date' than she thought; or she might have conceived earlier than she thought. "I'm not as far along my term as I thought."
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Anonymous'10 days less pregnant'.
No. We have answered your questions before on exactly this same topic.
"More pregnant" and "less pregnant" are not normal collocations.
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The rule in English is that "fewer" applies to collections of discrete things; "less" refers to collections not made of individuals.

You may say "I have been pregnant 10 fewer days than I thought." Days are individual items.

You may say "I have drunk less milk in the last ten days." Ordinarily, we don't think of a drink as a collection of molecules.

But in both cases,
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