Re: Emacs-diffs Digest, Vol 89, Issue 2

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden>
> Cc: Chong Yidong <address@hidden>,
>     address@hidden
> Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2010 10:56:25 +0900
> 
> Eli Zaretskii writes:
> 
>  > > -in most any known written language.
>  > > +in almost any known written language.
>  > 
>  > I don't think this was a typo.
> 
> It's a typo.  The vernacular "'most" is spelled with an apostrophe.
> Alternatively, "in most known written languages", but "almost any" is
> a much stronger statement.

Whatever.  All I know is that googling for "most any" yields
1,330,000,000 hits here.  So maybe it's not 100% correct, but it is
widely used jargon.