tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31830497.post6845062767494881695..comments2024-02-28T05:25:12.859-05:00Comments on English, Jack: Multiple of the peopleBretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02870575277556244419noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31830497.post-47141807569245063092011-08-25T08:58:27.365-05:002011-08-25T08:58:27.365-05:00For what it's worth, "numerous of […]&quo...For what it's worth, "numerous of […]" and "multiple of […]" both sound really O.K. to me, especially the latter. In fact, thanks to the magic of Gmail search, I find that I myself used it a year ago June, in the sentence, "After passing through multiple of what I can best describe as open souvenir markets, we visited a church with a bell in it." (Though my use of "open" to mean "open-air" suggests that I may not have been at peak writing ability.) I guess a different speaker might have preferred "more than one of"?<br /><br />I find "single or multiple of ..." a bit iffier, but its acceptability is probably helped by the common phrase "single-point mutations", which also probably contributed to its occurrence here.<br /><br />A hypothetical *"single of ..." is absolute crazy talk. :-PRanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01369980917358096502noreply@blogger.com