Nobody would say “Give a centimetre and they will take a kilometre”, or “He hasn’t got a gram of common sense”.
So why do people write “He presented tonnes of evidence”?
It was always “tons”, and always should be “tons”.
Yes Really!
Nobody would say “Give a centimetre and they will take a kilometre”, or “He hasn’t got a gram of common sense”.
So why do people write “He presented tonnes of evidence”?
It was always “tons”, and always should be “tons”.