Is it "a myriad of" or just "myriad"?
myriads of
>>24695165Just myriad. It literally means ten thousand.>>24695176Oh dear.
>>24695208>It literally means ten thousandbut as a collective no? So "a myriad of" would be equivalent to "a thousand of" and "myriads of" "thousands of"
Both work depending on the sentence.Like saying “a dozen of those eggs” or “a dozen eggs.”
>>24695221You wouldn't say "ten thousand of people," or "ten thousand of pounds."
>>24695228Because we don't have a single word for ten thousand. The Indians have a single word for 100,000 and they say one lakh of people
>>24695208You can’t trust the top comment on reddit to inform your knowledge on everything
>>24695208>>24695228
>>24695338>the voice of experience.
Whichever sounds better for the sentence you're composing is the correct one
>>24695927Based
>>24695165Both
>>24696751I'm English btw and thus an authority on the language, unlike most American posters on here (don't forget that they think 'whilst' and 'amongst' are pretentious)
>>24695208It doesn't mean ten thousand. It comes from murias in greek and it means a collection of objects that amount to 10000 units, not 10000 per se, like "centenar" in Spanish is different to "cien". But anglos will never understand.
>>24695165Whatever floats your boat. Generally used figuratively the way 'tons' 'a ton of' etc. isMyriad fools, a myriad of fools, myriads upon myriads (of) foolish citoyennes
I only use "myriad X" never "myriad of X". There's no real logic why, it just feels right and I'm convinced it's objectively correct.
>>24696822That's a stylistic choice, then>convincedBy whom?
It's fairly common to say something like>For a myriad of reasonsIt's just another colourful way of saying Dozens, tons, lots etc.The insistence on not using "a" beforehand is based on the word already being plural but it doesn't sound natural in english and it would be like saying>For dozen reasons
>>24696867>it doesn't sound natural in englishother than the fact that 'for myriad reasons' is a well-established usage
>>24696935myriad of reasons is clearly superiorhttps://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=myriad+reasons%2C+myriad+of+reasons&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3
i think you can use either, but "a myriad of" sounds more natural to me personally
