- The origin of two is company, three is a crowd
The proverb was first recorded in the mid-19th century, in the form “Two is company but three is none,” (W C Hazlitt, English Proverbs [1869]) but the sentiment it expresses is of earlier origin Variants of this proverb: two is company but three is none; two's a couple, but three's a crowd, four's too many, and fives's not allowed
- grammar - Three of which vs three of them? - English Language Usage . . .
Four pits have been unearthed, (three of which three of them) contained gold I wasn't too sure which was which because I have heard "of which" in this type of context as well as "three of them" but I wasn't sure which was correct I am pretty sure that it has to do with Idiomatic phrases and don't know which is correct
- 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
- 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
- Word for three times a year. Is tri-quarterly a real word?
It is possible that whoever used the term wanted to convey the idea that the three issues are published in three-month intervals, i e quarterly (say, in March, June,and September), and that one quarter is then skipped (in this example, there is no issue in December) Tri-quarterly would, however, still be a very bad term to use for that purpose
- 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 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:
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