OT: RE: Grammar, was RE: Work In KC Area?

From: Peter Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
Date: Fri Aug 8 02:03:00 2003

On Aug 7, 19:11, Fred N. van Kempen wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
>
> > The proper usage is to speak of "myriad OT threads" (as in "many OT
> Wrong, it's "a myriad *of* <something>" , defined as "a great number
> of things", "many things" and so on.

Not wrong at all. The Oxford English Dictionary defines it as "myriad,
a & n, ten thousand (of); an indefinitely large number". The original
usage was "myriad things"; "myriad of ..." is recent usage.

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York

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