Talk:no end
Latest comment: 4 years ago by Backinstadiums in topic to no end
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Is this a valid adverbial phrase? I'm listening to a web lecture where the lecturer (Tau Stephan Hoeller) utters: "Sexual, and sort of gender-related, symbolism in religious and spiritual matters exists, and this of course annoyed the Victorians no end."[1] __meco 17:22, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
- Valid? Certainly fairly common in speech. In MWOnline and some other OneLook dictionaries. I'll add it. DCDuring TALK 17:46, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
- I'm not sure of the appropriate entry for "no end of X", meaning "plenty of X" or "an endless supply of X". I don't think we have a sense of "end" for this. I suppose "no limit of X" might be synonymous. DCDuring TALK 18:55, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
- Sure then. I would have expected "to no end". 72.177.113.91 19:48, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
- Many (but not all) speakers distinguish between (deprecated template usage) to no end and (deprecated template usage) no end. (The former is from (deprecated template usage) end.) —RuakhTALK 03:36, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
- I think this illustrates a problem with the idea of contrasting the meaning of an idiom (which I think both the adverb and noun are) with the literal meaning of the collocation. Displaying one meaning for a polysemic word seems insufficient; displaying them all seems excessive. The idiom tag alone seems appropriate in such cases with perhaps a usage note such as what Ruakh suggests. DCDuring TALK 11:30, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
Striking. (N.B. This entry did not exist before this discussion.) —RuakhTALK 01:47, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
to no end should be added as it's not compositionally understandable --Backinstadiums (talk) 16:52, 26 December 2019 (UTC)