7 Aug
2003
7 Aug
'03
8:57 a.m.
On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Nick Steel wrote:
As long as we're bitching, the hairs on the back
of my neck stand up
(all too frequently, as it's currently in vogue) when people try to be
erudite (but prove the reverse) by referring to: "A myriad of...".
It's a stupid word, widely misused, probably not very understood, and is
better replaced with "bunch (of)" or "many" or even
"plethora" which is a
fun word because its not common and gets funny looks from the vocabularily
challenged.
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