•August 18, 2021•
By Jim Baumann
NP Guest Writer

Despite there being dragons, prodigious bloodshed and eight long seasons, I’ve largely enjoyed finally watching “Game of Thrones.”
There was an awful lot (of awfulness) that happened during this series, but it had its subtleties, too.
I especially enjoyed the running grammar-correcting subtext.
Stannis Baratheon in the second season corrects Ser Davos Seaworth, who was an illiterate smuggler, telling him it was “fewer” fingers, not less.
In the seventh season, in an episode I watched two weeks ago, Jon Snow asks Davos, “How many men do we have in the North to fight him — 10,000? Less?”
Davos’ response: “Fewer.”     Login or Subscribe to read the rest of this story.