Congratulations on finishing your book, I wish you much success!
I enjoyed this article. REST shows us how great the Creator is and how amazingly we are designed. I can see a future where we figure out how to work with REST and other mechanisms to turn us all into miracles and miracle workers.
Myriad means 10,000. Perhaps it would be more accurate to state we have myriads of switches.
I read that in a dictionary. Here is its entry in Oxford English dictionary. “Chiefly Ancient History. Ten thousand; a set of ten thousand of anything; esp. a unit of ten thousand soldiers.” Usage tracks to Anno Domini 1555. Here is the link to that entry:
Please be advised that the front matter of their published dictionaries disavows that the Oxford English dictionary has any authority. There is no official authority over the English language, so you are free to use any word any which way you please. You’ll note that “semiannual” is a very useful word meaning twice a year, and that dictionaries have generally begun to include “twice a year” in their definition of “biannual” because that’s one of the meanings given to it by users of the language, even though its more venerable usage is “every two years.”
One of the strengths of the language we speak and use for reading and writing is that there is no official authority telling us we can and cannot say nor indeed how we can say it. There is usage, from users. That’s why you can put the quotation marks outside the punctuation if you prefer, or include the “Oxford comma” in your lists, or do anything you please. People who say you’re wrong are mistaken. Which is not to justify ebonics, but it is food for thought.
Congratulations on finishing your book, I wish you much success!
I enjoyed this article. REST shows us how great the Creator is and how amazingly we are designed. I can see a future where we figure out how to work with REST and other mechanisms to turn us all into miracles and miracle workers.
Myriad means 10,000. Perhaps it would be more accurate to state we have myriads of switches.
“Myriad means 10,000. Perhaps it would be more accurate to state we have myriads of switches.”… keeping me on my toes!!!
I just learned that recently from @Jim Davidson. I blame him, unless I got the number wrong and then I blame me.
regardless... I wouldn’t dream of blaming you.
I read that in a dictionary. Here is its entry in Oxford English dictionary. “Chiefly Ancient History. Ten thousand; a set of ten thousand of anything; esp. a unit of ten thousand soldiers.” Usage tracks to Anno Domini 1555. Here is the link to that entry:
https://www.oed.com/dictionary/myriad_n
Please be advised that the front matter of their published dictionaries disavows that the Oxford English dictionary has any authority. There is no official authority over the English language, so you are free to use any word any which way you please. You’ll note that “semiannual” is a very useful word meaning twice a year, and that dictionaries have generally begun to include “twice a year” in their definition of “biannual” because that’s one of the meanings given to it by users of the language, even though its more venerable usage is “every two years.”
One of the strengths of the language we speak and use for reading and writing is that there is no official authority telling us we can and cannot say nor indeed how we can say it. There is usage, from users. That’s why you can put the quotation marks outside the punctuation if you prefer, or include the “Oxford comma” in your lists, or do anything you please. People who say you’re wrong are mistaken. Which is not to justify ebonics, but it is food for thought.
My kind regards.
thanks… you’ve made me a more thoughtful communicator!
you’re welcome