![]() ![]() Thus Merriam-Webster tells us plainly and directly that most means "the majority of". Most dictionaries agree with the OED in defining most as something like "modifying a plural count noun: the greatest number of the majority of". ![]() Uh I s- sell almost as many uh books in- in the Netherlands as I do in the- in the U.S. I mean I- I sell more books in Germany than I do in the U.S. I wouldn't say- I wouldn't say "most" but I'd say "more than half". They are not only overseas but people not in the United Kingdom or Australia. I- I read somewhere that you said that now m- most of your audience, you believe, reads you not in English. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. From this week's Studio 360, in an interesting interview with John Irving, this interesting evidence about the meaning of most:Īudio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip.
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