dang! I missed that feature. Where did they hide it? ;)

bring on teh snappy!

means "excess" "overabundance". There's never an "excess" of fixes, although there can be a plethora of bugs that require a "profusion" of fixes.

I hate it when people use this word to mean "a whole lot" --- because that's how I used to use it, and that's because I learned the word from somebody who used it to mean "a whole lot".

From our friendly Dictionary app:plethora |?ple??r?|noun ( a plethora of)an excess of (something) : a plethora of committees and subcommittees.• Medicine an excess of a bodily fluid, particularly blood.USAGE NOTEAccording to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) and most other dictionaries, this word refers (and has always referred) to an overabundance, an overfullness, or an excess.

The thing is, the definitions of words change with usage. Words are often used outside of their original or previous meanings, and you end up with plenty of modern words that have different meanings than they used to. As it is, plethora is probably a good example of this. Certainly the use of "plethora" to simply mean a "whole lot" rather than specifically an excess or overabundance is not correct, but the thing is, the power of usage ends up trumping any dictionary definition. As plethora continues to be used to mean "a whole lot", it will eventually drift into commonly accepted usage and eventually become a legitimate definition and usage of the word. You can't really fight something like that; people can complain about how a word is being used incorrectly, but you can't fight the forces of common usage, right or wrong.

you are correct. Like the word "implode", which used to be a specific scientific term. Yet, when 9/11 happened, the buildings were said to "implode" and thanks to popular usage... the word now means "to collapse"

popular usage is crap btw. It's stupid people using words they dont know the definition to. And we accommodate their stupidity by changing the meaning of the word. Very sad...

veritable plethera. I use it to mean "a whole lot of a whole lot."

HAHA! Take that!

The fun thing about language is that it really cannot be definitively documented. Language evolves, changes, reverts, and constantly maintains fluidity. Language is, at its root, two or more individuals agreeing that abstract gestures (spoken and written words included) mean something greater than themselves.

At any given time a dictionary is, at best, a snapshot in time. A almanac of words. They are useful in that they will give you a better idea of words that you do not know. However, they are not the be-all, and end-all of language- you and I are.

Yeah, the Roman elite thought popular usage was crap, too. And look what happened to Latin!

BTW,FWIW I h8 when ppl use acronyms in place of idioms. That could be just me.