Sorry... I'm sure that your girlfriend is a great person in every way, but the Oxford English Dictionary disagrees with her. It acknowledges the existence and currency of "myriad" in noun and adjective forms. As a noun, it has the following definitions:
1. As a numeral: Ten thousand. 2. (pl.) Countless numbers, hosts (of) 3. Countless numbers of men, animals, or inanimate things (to be inferred from the context) And, before you ask, I do have way too much time on my hands. I will say, however, that the digital OED is probably one of the only reasons I keep Windows around. Andrew Soren Harward spake: Just checked this with my girlfriend, whose qualifications to make a definitive statement on grammar and usage are so long I won't attempt to list them. She says to use "myriad" in exactly the same way you would use "many": as an adjective. The noun form is technically incorrect but is so often misused that it's gaining grudging acceptance from usage nit-pickers. -- Soren Harward [EMAIL PROTECTED] ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
