Talk:everyone
Add topicLatest comment: 2 years ago by Equinox in topic everyone can also refer to animals
Singular/plural
[edit]How about adding some information to this article as whether this word is plural or singular? --Mortense 17:07, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
- everyone's --or-- everyones' I'd like to know too... 71.183.80.207 18:17, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
- "Everyones'" would mean "belonging to everyones", and that isn't a word, so it's always "everyone's". Equinox ◑ 18:19, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
of anyone I know
[edit]The American Heritage Dictionary reads
Anyone is often used in place of the more logical everyone in sentences like the most intelligent person of anyone I know. In our 2017 ballot, the Usage Panel accepted it 55 percent to 45 percent, while rejecting the supposedly correct alternative 69 % to 31 %. Presumably an idiomatic reading, “compared to any single person I know,” outweighs the literal reading “out of all the people I know.” The implication of a one-by-one mental comparison may explain why the expression survives.
However, I find the explanation contradictory, because the meaning "of everyone I know" is also on the lines of “out of all the people I know.”
Also, I can't fully grasp what the author means by a "one-by-one mental comparison." --Backinstadiums (talk) 10:26, 10 September 2020 (UTC)
everyone can also refer to animals
[edit]cant it? IsraeliEditor54 (talk) 12:39, 6 February 2023 (UTC)
- Not usually. Maybe the way that person can, too, in animal fairy-tales etc. Equinox ◑ 20:11, 6 February 2023 (UTC)