What is the correct usage of myriad? In the 19th century it began to be used in poetry as an adjective, as in myriad men 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
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 As the entries here show, however, the noun is in fact the older form, dating to the 16th century
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 )
Is myriad not prevalent in day to day speech? [duplicate] A large, indefinite number: a myriad of microorganisms in the pond; myriads of stars in the galaxy Archaic: Ten thousand adj Constituting a very large, indefinite number; innumerable: the myriad fish in the ocean Composed of numerous diverse elements or facets: the myriad life of the metropolis Usage Note:
Why is Indian English usually rhotic? General Indian English and its myriads of other English dialects (e g Malayali English, Maharashtrian English, Punjabi English, Bengali English, Hindi English) is a fascinating topic which I know very little of but on EL U we do have many IE speakers whom I sure could explain far better and in far greater detail and depth