Wednesday, October 2, 2013

any other number of/any number of other: Common Errors in English Usage Entry for Wednesday, October 2, 2013

any other number of/any number of other
When there are a lot of possible alternatives, we may say there are any number of them: “There are any number of other colors I would have preferred to this sickening lime green.”

This expression often gets scrambled into “any other number of.”




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