more on "most"

Arnold Zwicky zwicky at STANFORD.EDU
Fri Mar 13 02:20:23 UTC 2009


i should of course have looked at MWDEU first.  it has a nice piece on
"most" 'almost, nearly' modifying quantifiers, pointing out (as i did)
that it has a long history, has been standard in American English for
some time, etc.

arnold

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