Usage Note: Throughout most of its history in English myriad was used as a noun, as in a myriad of men. In the 19th century it began to be used in poetry as an adjective, as in myriad men. Both usages in English are acceptable, as in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Myriad myriads of lives.” This poetic, adjectival use became so well entrenched generally that many people came to consider it as the only correct use. In fact, both uses in English are parallel with those of the original ancient Greek. The Greek word m?rias, from which myriad derives, could be used as either a noun or an adjective, but the noun m?rias was used in general prose and in mathematics while the adjective m?rias was used only in poetry.

Sher, perhaps you could clear up if one should ALWAYS include periods inside parenthesis when ending a sentence. My boss and I have a difference of opinion on this.

I learned from sitting beside you at work for so many years.

I also learned what an “AI” is (Sher, tell them)…

P.S.-One of my pet peeves (and I think we share this, Sher) is when people use fUrther for fArther. FArther is DISTANCE…fUrther is to “devlve into something more deeply”…