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There are many of reasons why I'm not going to calmly agree with the audacious claim that 'both uses are acceptable today'.
by Jedd 9y ago
There are many of reasons why I'm not going to calmly agree with the audacious claim that 'both uses are acceptable today'.
- superplussed 9y agoOf course both are acceptable, why is this an audacious claim?
- Jedd 9y agoBecause it invites (not begs) the question 'to whom are they both acceptable?'. People that contribute to thefreedictionary.com, evidently.
- kapep 9y agothefreedictionary.com is only one of many dictionaries that use "myriad of" in their examples. Here are some more: http://www.yourdictionary.com/myriad http://www.yourdictionary.com/myriad A quick Google Ngram search supports the claims from thefreedictionary, that "a myriad" or "myriads" was used first and that "myriad" as an adjective was only used later: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=%28myriad_NOUN%2Bmyriads_NOUN%29%2Cmyriad_ADJ&year_start=1600&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2C%28myriad_NOUN%20%2B%20myriads_NOUN%29%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cmyriad_ADJ%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=%28myriad_NOUN... It looks like "myriad of" has been correct in the past and is still used widely.
- randallsquared 9y agoAnd people who contribute to the OED, in both the 1989 and 2003 editions, evidently. http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/124538 http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/124538 http://www.oed.com/oed2/00154839;jsessionid=AC4DB817EFBADA5F500874E63F5A5E38 http://www.oed.com/oed2/00154839;jsessionid=AC4DB817EFBADA5F... I have had similar experiences, though, where I was convinced that some word or phrase usage was just incorrect, and where it turned out that I had just not happened across it. Fortunately, a minute of research can today fix any such misconceptions!