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[somepeople]

Dangit -- I've been grousing for years about people who say "a myriad of X," and only now I learn that the noun form is perfectly acceptable and etymologically sound, as "myriad" derives from the greek word for "10,000." I hate when I'm duped by the evil society of false grammarians!

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[stargazzy]

Excuse me, but Evil Society of False Grammarians should have been capitalized, Mr. Editor Man!

[somepeople]

Their style is to keep the initial letter down. That's how evil they are.

[meestagoat]

You are now on the ESoFG watch list; beware.

[somepeople]

Great - now I'll *never* be allowed on the Copyediting Fun Cruise with all the cute bitter young copy editors.

[meestagoat]

Don't worry; it's not that much fun anyway. Mostly everyone gets drunk and then the Brits and Americans fight about serial commas.