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- When is thrice used? - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
The NOAD says thrice is, "chiefly formal literary," which is what the OED says too They also say that in sentences such as "I was thrice blessed " thrice means "extremely; very " Looking for any sentence containing thrice on the Corpus of Contemporary American English, I found 230 sentences, 6 of those cataloged as "spoken " SHORTZ: Very good
- word request - Once, twice, thrice,. . . , what comes next? - English . . .
Thrice three times; Four times; Five times; Six times; Seven times; Eight times; Nine times; Ten times; Note: "a couple" doesn't always mean exactly two, although it often does As mentioned by Mick in the comments, thrice is quite old fashioned and while most people in the UK would understand, it's not commonly used
- How to refer to once, twice, thrice correctly in grammar terminology?
How to refer to 'once, twice, thrice' correctly in grammar terminology? I found sources which called them 'predeterminers' (see here) and source that call them 'quantifiers' (see here)
- expressions - Confusion between once every and twice thrice . . .
And yes, biweekly can be used to mean either every two weeks or twice a week Note: Biweekly, as the meaning says can be used to mean either instance, which will certainly lead to ambiguity
- Numbering items - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
Thrice is rarely used these days, with 'three times' being more common For numeral adverbs above three we use the appropriate numeral plus 'times', e g four times, five times , etc In some languages other than English there is a mechanism that allows this class of number to go on indefinitely; refer to the link for Number Adverbs above for
- “Firstly, secondly, thirdly,…”, what comes next? [duplicate]
That may be true However based on what I am seeing nowadays on the news, the websites tend to use the terms like firstly, secondly more often
- phonetics - The difference between i and I - English Language . . .
I checked Oxford dictionary for i and I sound difference, I got the explanation but I discovered that most Nigerians use i in place of I for letter 'i' words e g Fit fit instead of fIt
- Difference between increase by and increase to
Furthermore, each of the latter three phrases, but none of the former three, is on Ngrams showing an uptick Thus, objectively, the word ‘thrice’ isn’t really becoming dated, in spite of this not-uncommon claim In any case, my 'quadrupled' is the more striking word choice than 'thrice' (both deliberate paedagigical picks, yes), methinks
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