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Does anyone know linguistically more about this "many a <singular thing>" construction? I've seen many an instance of this and I find it curious
by spraak 8y ago
Does anyone know linguistically more about this "many a <singular thing>" construction? I've seen many an instance of this and I find it curious
- eschutte2 8y agoMy dictionary just says "used distributively with a singular noun, with an or a prefixed to the noun," and gives the earliest known example as "moni ane eærde" from Layamon's Brut (~1205): https://books.google.com/books?id=UFZcAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA218&lpg=PA218&dq=%22moni+ane+e%C3%A6rde%22 https://books.google.com/books?id=UFZcAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA218&lpg=...