What is the correct usage of myriad? Both usages in English are acceptable, as in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Myriad myriads of lives " This poetic, adjectival use became so well entrenched generally that many people came to consider it as the only correct use In fact, both uses in English are parallel with those of the original ancient Greek
Is there an English word for a period of 10000 years? By the way, there's a very long word for a myriad of myriads = 10^8 in Greek Nothing like these spellings seems to have entered English Classical Latin seems to have had a wealth of "-ennium" words, including some that I didn't suspect ( like triennium, tricennium, tricentennium for periods of 3, 30 and 300 years respectively )
Does this sentence use the word myriad correctly? (i) As a plural noun [+ of]: myriads of stars (1555) (ii) As a singular noun + of: a myriad of stars (1609) (iii) As a … quantifier: a myriad stars; myriad stars (1735) … The first usage book to proscribe [the noun usages] dates from as recently as 1996 The usage in the above example would thus be considered not ungrammatical by Fowler
Is . . . myriad of movement . . . correct or not? [closed] Recent criticism of the use of myriad as a noun, both in the plural form myriads and in the phrase a myriad of, seems to reflect a mistaken belief that the word was originally and is still properly only an adjective
Is myriad not prevalent in day to day speech? [duplicate] I have noticed people using "myriad" when they mean "uncountable" or simply many Is "Myriad" not prevalent in "day to day speech Can it be used for definite but large amount of anything
punctuation - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Often, I have come across sentences that begin with "So" Should such an usage of "So" be followed by a comma? Are the following examples correct He is very good at computers So, I think he can
Gods nightgown! - English Language Usage Stack Exchange There are myriads of variations on swear words and curses, used in order to convey the meaing of the original curse without actually saying it Examples are cussing for cursing or (god)darn (ed)! for (~)damn (ed)!
What is the difference between the words retort and riposte? Even the best dictionaries can't come close to bringing out all the myriads of nuances connected with almost every word, though nowadays they try to begin to address the problem by adding many example sentences So, what does this mean for your case? Well, to repeat, they both mean nearly the same thing definition-wise
single word requests - Splitting numbers into groups of digits . . . In East Asian cultures, particularly China, Japan, and Korea, large numbers are read in groups of myriads (10,000s) but the delimiter commonly separates every three digits The Indian numbering system is somewhat more complex: it groups the rightmost three digits together (till the hundreds place) and thereafter groups by sets of two digits