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- The origin of two is company, three is a crowd
A company consisting of three is worth nothing It is the Spanish opinion who say that to keep a secret three are too many, and to be merry they are too few John Collins provides this translation which resembles more closely the English proverb (1834) “Three persons in company are too many for any secret affair, and two few for social
- Three-times vs three times - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Three times as many cases of measles were reported in the United States in 2014 vs Three-times as many cases of measles were reported in the United States in 2014 Is there a difference between the normal and hyphenated versions? Which one is correct?
- What is the meaning of the adjective phrase three-up?
In Annie Proulx's short story, the phrase "three-up outfit" appears, used to describe the ranch of one of the characters I do not know what "three-up" means
- writing style - Why do we have both the word three and the numeral 3 . . .
Why do we have both the word "three" and the numeral "3" in this sentence? The number 345 has three digits, where the first digit is a 3
- Three of which vs three of them? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Three of the quartz veins contain gold, i e , the gold is their 'possession' (in the grammatical sense) If you wrote the sentence like the following example, the relationship between the geologists, the quartz veins, and the gold would be unclear
- If annual means one year, is there any word for two,three, four. . year
From WordWeb: Annual: Occurring or payable every year What is the corresponding single word for occurring every two year, three year, four year etc I understand that it's surely not exhaustively
- What do we call the “rd” in “3ʳᵈ” and the “th” in “9ᵗʰ”?
Our numbers have a specific two-letter combination that tells us how the number sounds For example 9th 3rd 301st What do we call these special sounds?
- word choice - Is triple the proper counterpart of pair when . . .
Nobody posted this as an answer before you because triple is the logical increment of tuple; triplet is the logical increment of twin In informatics, a key-value pair is called tuple or 2-tuple Therefore, an ordered multiset of three elements such as key-value-flag would either be called 3-tuple or triple
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