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"much more images" / "many more images"? [SOLVED: "many more images" is correct] (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Crul@lemm.ee to c/english@lemmy.ca

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I did a quick search on google and, not only I see both versions, I even see both of them in the same document.

Example: Region-Enhancing Network for Semantic Segmentation of Remote-Sensing Imagery - PMC

the dataset with much more images
the dataset with many more images

Specific searches show these numbers:

About 4,520,000 results for "much more images"
About 2,780,000 results for "many more images"

Is there any difference between them?
Thanks!

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[–] tychosmoose@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Native speaker here. I agree with the others that "many" is correct.

Also, I only get 43 results for your first search, and 3,100,000 for the second.

[–] Crul@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks!

I only get 43 results for your first search,

My bad, I didn't mean there were a lot of results using both in the same document. I also get very few results for hat search.

[–] tychosmoose@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, I mean I got 43 results on a Google search for the first quoted phrase, and 3.1M for the second quoted phrase. That's two separate G searches. I was not looking for documents with both phrases.

[–] Crul@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Definitively Google numbers are nonsense, now I see 1.1M

[–] tychosmoose@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Definitely bs. I got 1.1 on first visit too. Then I refreshed the page and it was 42.