This was meant to contain humor, right? “Drives me nuts,” ha ha, I like it.

This echoes the confusion about “fewer” and “less.” News commentators, advertisers, you name it, continually say less when they mean fewer.

“Less people will come down with flu than anticipated.” NO! It’s FEWER people.

Precision in language is eroding and fading away. Drives me nuts.

Majority means more than half the amount.

Then, it also discusses COMPUTING MAJORITY: To describe how large a majority is, take the figure that is more than half and subtract everything else from it: If 100,000 votes were cast in an election and one candidate received 60,000 while opponents received 40,000, the winner would have a majority of 20,000 votes.

Great article! I’ll definitely think more carefully about how I use the word “majority” in the future….

i.e. Majority of the time my friend calls me for help.
This could be anywhere from 5/6 to 9 out of 10 times.

i.e. A vast majority of the time my friend calls me for help.
This would be anywhere from 7/8 to 9 out of 10 times.

Of course there are other ways of phrasing both sentences to avoid using majority, but I don’t see anything wrong with how the word is used since it is still referring to part of a whole.
Real overheard conversation: “How much of the pie was eaten?”
“Most of it.”
“How much is most?”
“The vast majority.”
“I’ll buy another.”

I think there are more important issues to address with the use of the English language, like overusing and destroying the meanings of words such as racism, gay, Nazi, and special.