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Word for three times a year. Is tri-quarterly a real word? Or possibly three times a quarter, which is monthly You can't redefine a quarter as a third, though Three times a year is triannual — not triennial which is every three years You could also say every four months; "every four months" is preferable because it removes the possibility of confusion between triennial and triannual
of the three vs of all three - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Both are correct You would usually use "A is the oldest of the three" if you were talking about three people from a larger group e g three girls who have two brothers, while you would use "A is the oldest of all three" if there were only three in the group e g three girls with no brothers
Three of which vs three of them? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange The correct sentence is: 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 Three of the pits contain gold, i e , the gold is their 'possession' (in the grammatical sense)
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
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