myriad

This is for all the Humber grads (up to #5 now) who keep telling me the same damn, and very tired, story about the use of the word 'myriad' and have no clue - that with a little research called "looking in the dictionary" - they would realize that both they and their professor, are actually only half right.

Which also means you are half-wrong.

Please take your severely low-grade language snobbery somewhere else please.

MYR-I-AD
poetic/literary

noun
1 - a countless or extremely great number: networks connecting a myriad of computers.
2 - (chiefly in classical history) a unit of ten thousand.

adjective
countless or extremely great in number: the myriad lights of the city.
- having countless or very many elements or aspects: the myriad political scene.

ORIGIN
mid 16th cent. (sense 2 of the noun): via late Latin from Greek murias, muriad, from murioi '10,000'

USAGE
Myriad is derived from Greek noun and adjective meaning 'ten thousand'. It was first used in English as a noun in reference to a great but indefinite number. The adjectival sense of 'countless, innumerable' appeared much later. In modern English, use of myriad as a noun and adjective are equally standard and correct, despite the fact that some traditionalists consider the adjective as the only acceptable use of the word.

Listing...s

Is it wrong to use one's blog to list what I want to blog about, and yet not actually blog?

This week has basically been a whirlwind on steroids, but next week is going to be even worse - so time is non-existent... existant... existent... where the hell is the spellcheck on this thing....

Anywho - I figured the best way to remind me about all the things I WANT to blog about (so that I eventually do blog about them) is to list them here - on my blog - HA!

Anyhow - for me more than anyone else:
- Myriad (and a personal grievance)
- Be considerate. Be Safe. We're serious about blaming you.
- Trevor & Anna: Tuesday nights at the Concord Cafe
- All my burgeoning artistic peeps
- A thought about Wynnie
- This really weird pain in my side...

So I guess this list is a promise - here's all these things that I have to say and have developing in my head, and yet... can't come out - all due to time.

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Now watch - I've gone and excited myself about writing and I'll be posting all of them tonight - HA! I guess I'm going to find out how this new "future posting" thing works on this Blogger thing...

ciao!