Timeline for One of only five
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| Sep 16, 2016 at 13:08 | vote | accept | Jasmine Kuo | ||
| Sep 16, 2016 at 13:00 | vote | accept | Jasmine Kuo | ||
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| Sep 1, 2016 at 15:17 | comment | added | TimR | google.com/… | |
| Sep 1, 2016 at 15:14 | comment | added | Robusto | "Well attested" it may be, but many odd things are that. There are plenty of poor writers out there. | |
| Aug 31, 2016 at 22:36 | comment | added | TimR | But we can say without any jarring whatsoever: These are the only two I have left until the new shipment arrives. It's when we turn "the only two" into a partitive set that things start going off: This is one of the only two I have left. | |
| Aug 31, 2016 at 20:23 | comment | added | Monty Harder | Any use of the word "only" with a number other than "one" grates on me, because "only" originally meant "one-like" or "one of a kind". In many cases ("only child") it still means that. But like its cousin "unique", it now has come to also mean "rare", watering it down so that we no longer have a single word that means "one of a kind". | |
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| Aug 31, 2016 at 11:24 | history | answered | TimR | CC BY-SA 3.0 |