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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
- Microsoft October 2025 Patch Tuesday fixes 6 zero-days, 172 flaws
Today is Microsoft's October 2025 Patch Tuesday, which includes security updates for 172 flaws, including six zero-day vulnerabilities Get patching!
- Word for three times a year. Is tri-quarterly a real word?
Is "tri-quarterly" a real English word meaning 3 times a year? Are there any other words that mean 3 times a year?
- Why is it three score years and ten almost half the time and not . . .
3 Why is it 'three score years and ten' almost half the time and not always 'three score and ten years'? Note: I edited the question body and title in light of comments and answers pointing me to a Google phrase frequency chart which indicates that the two versions are used about equally often right now
- Three of which vs three of them? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Four pits have been unearthed, three of which contained gold 'Of which' is correct because you need a possessive form to accurately describe the relationship between the three pits and the gold
- “We three” vs “us three” - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
In the sentence, quot;We three will go to the Express mall You can find we us three there, having a good time quot; I'm unsure whether to use we us for the second reference I have read about
- Is there a verb counterpart to pair when bringing together three things
Whereas a pair has a lot of specific associations in English (couples, card games, chromosomes, body parts), trios are rarer, and bringing three items together (rather than two or four) is rarer still Rarely, people do turn trio into a verb, though in a specific sense referring to playing against an opponent in a group of three
- Which is right — all the three or all three in a situation of . . .
All three cars already implies that you are referring to specific cars; you don't need the article to clarify that these aren't just any cars I would say that your best options are all three cars, three of the cars, or each of [the] three cars, depending on the context
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