A Comically Unfortunate Typo

In The Latest Newsletter

Something like this was bound to happen. In the edition that just went out, the passage:

But still, less for count nouns (coins, pants, cars), fewer for mass nouns (water, honey, heartbreak), is basically the whole thing. That’s it.

Should have read:

But still, fewer for count nouns (coins, pants, cars), less for mass nouns (water, honey, heartbreak), is basically the whole thing. That’s it.

Ironically, a very good example of a case where less and fewer are not interchangeable.