[Ads-l] Fwd: Re: if you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together"

[Cohen, Gerald Leonard]

Barry Popik puts out an extraordinary website. Below is a private message he sent today.
G. Cohen 
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From: Barry Popik [bapopik at aol.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 10:22 AM
Subject: "if you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together" (ADS-L query)

http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/if_you_want_to_go_fast_go_alone_if_you_want_to_go_far_go_together/
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I couldn't find much on the "old African proverb," but found it back to 2004.
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--Barry Popik
www.barrypopik.com (Give it a try! No crowds!)




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From: American Dialect Society [ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] on behalf of Laurence Horn [laurence.horn at YALE.EDU]
Sent: Saturday, February 13, 2016 7:39 AM
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: "numerous of"

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Poster:       Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: "numerous of"
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> On Feb 13, 2016, at 3:02 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>=20
> "Problem with a wooden bridge is it had to be repaired _a numerous of
> times_.
>=20
> A member of the Facebook S.I.G., US Army in Germany, recounting the =
history
> of the Glienicke Bridge at Potsdam.
>=20
> I don't think that I've seen this structure in print, before, and this =
is
> certainly a first for "_a_ numerous of..."
> --=20
> -Wilson

I'll beat Jerry Cohen to the punch and posit a blend of "numerous times" =
and "a number of times".

LH

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