Timeline for Is it considered normal to say "many millions"?
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| May 17, 2017 at 5:29 | vote | accept | TheCompModder | ||
| Mar 28, 2017 at 11:16 | answer | added | jejorda2 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 28, 2017 at 8:35 | answer | added | Tonepoet | timeline score: 3 | |
| Mar 28, 2017 at 8:10 | answer | added | Andrew Leach♦ | timeline score: 4 | |
| Mar 28, 2017 at 7:33 | comment | added | Tom22 | When you say "many" its more than can easily counted in a glance... millions might mean 5 million ... probably more than a "few", and definitely more than a "couple". I think people would say 10s of millions if they meant 20 or 50 million.for more ?' almost a 100 million'. Millions and millions to me would mean 100s of millions..something short of a billion ..maybe, maybe not.. it's trying to be uncountable at that point. My opinion.. but I'd definitely hear 'many millions" to mean more than millions. Language is what it means to people.. dictionaries are lagging indicators..... | |
| Mar 28, 2017 at 6:23 | comment | added | Rio1210 | I agree with @Ricky "Many" would be redundant, it's already "millions of miles". But as you're writing poetry and if you are looking for emphasis, I guess you could put it in there. But I wouldn't write it in a regular sentence. | |
| Mar 28, 2017 at 6:00 | comment | added | Ricky | Yeah, kind of. Besides, it's only 90 million miles. It ain't that far. I mean, you might as well say, "Many huge and tremendous millions of miles." Well, that's just my opinion. Maybe you should wait for others to reply. | |
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| Mar 28, 2017 at 5:47 | comment | added | TheCompModder | @Ricky I'm writing it about the distance from the sun to the moon, though, so is it still redundant? | |
| Mar 28, 2017 at 5:45 | comment | added | Ricky | "Many" would, in fact, be redundant. Consider that the entire planet's circumference is only about 26,000 miles. | |
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| Mar 28, 2017 at 5:33 | history | asked | TheCompModder | CC BY-SA 3.0 |