- writing style - Why do we have both the word three and the numeral 3 . . .
The number “345” has three digits, where the first digit is a “3” The number 345 has three digits, where the first digit is a 3 I leave as an exercise for the reader to decide whether mentions of the word number in this sentence should or could be better written saying numeral instead
- meaning - What does three by and five by mean? - English Language . . .
I am studying a foreign language, but few good textbooks are available I was able to find a public domain language training manual for air force pilots published on-line It teaches the target language using English On a page of vocabulary and phrases, it lists the English terms "three by" and "five by"
- What do we call the “rd” in “3ʳᵈ” and the “th” in “9ᵗʰ”?
301 st: (three-hundred-) fir st (shouldn't that be 301 th?, I'm not going there) Of course, in general, we call all these superscripts 'ordinal indicators,' and "suffixes," 'ordinal suffixes ' (We can see that there's no suffix as such until we come to 4, as we have ordinal names
- hyphenation - Three-times vs three times - English Language Usage . . .
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 betwee
- Why is it three score years and ten almost half the time and not . . .
The translators of the Authorized Version (KJV) must have decided to use the more poetic "three score years and ten" instead Meanwhile, the famous Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln begins with: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition
- Why there are two different meanings for triweekly?
"Every three weeks" is the most unambiguous option The problem appears to be in the semantic nature of the prefixes which carry the double meanings: Tri: word-forming element meaning "three, having three, once every three," from Latin tres (neuter tria) or Greek treis, trias "three" Bi:
- 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
- Broadcom fixes three VMware zero-days exploited in attacks
Broadcom warned customers today about three VMware zero-days, tagged as exploited in attacks and reported by the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center The vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-22224, CVE-2025
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