491: myriad Apr 12, 2016

People talk about things in vague terms for unspecified amounts, such as the adjectives 'few' 'several' 'many' 'umpteen' and the nouns 'a bunch' or 'a myriad'. If you noticed something fishy about that list, you're in the minority. 'Myriad' is used to mean "countless", but it comes from the ancient Greek 'murioi' which means 10,000, and is still used in combinations to make larger numbers.