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Three-and-twenty years old! - WordReference Forums
Sep 4, 2005. #2. Kräuter_Fee: Saying"three-and-twenty" is outdated English, but was perfectly correct in past centuries (don't nail be down on exactly when this way of counting died out). There is the famous English nursery rhyme that goes like this: Sing a song of sixpence, pocket full of rye. Four-and-twenty blackbirds baked in a pie...
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an hour's drive or an hours' drive | WordReference Forums
It was three minutes' walk away. It was a three-minute walk away. We had four weeks' holiday. (It could be four weeks together, or four weeks annually.) We had a four-week holiday. (All four weeks together.) A couple of things: I don't know what"a four week-work" or"a four-week work" might be, but here are some alternatives:
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half/twice as much as, two/three times more than
The red car is two times more expensive than the blue one. A is two times taller than B. A runs three times faster than B. Hence, with comparative adjectives we can only use the structure"twice/half/three times". Like in these sentences: A runs twice as fast as B. B runs half as fast as A.
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All Slavic languages: one, two, three.. vs"once, two, three ...
Apr 24, 2022. #4. In Bulgarian both are possible. 1. raz, dv a, tri. 2. edno, dv e, tri. When counting in Bulgarian, we always use the neuter forms for one and two. With raz we use the masculine dva (I guess because raz is masculine). H.
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"1 in 3 people" vs."1 of 3 people" vs."1 out of 3" people
American English. May 5, 2010. #7. Jo1234 said:"1 in 3" and"1 out of 3" = more general - it can mean any three people, and is usually used for statistics."1 of 3 people" = a specific three people. In refernce to a specific 3, then (at least in AE) we would use an article:"one of the three people"."One in three drivers report not wearing ...
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Abbreviation of"September","Sep." or"Sept." - WordReference Forums
Something like September 3rd would be 3-Sep-08. I would say just don't even abbreviate it, though, as Panjandrum suggested. If you're sending your resume to an American company, you could also write the date as MM/DD/ (YY)YY. For instance, today is"04/23/ (20)08" (you don't actually write the"20" in parenthesis.
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between...and.../between... to... - WordReference Forums
How about we use them this way: 1) This fisher weighs between 3 and 7 kilos. 2) These three fishers weigh between 3 to 7 kilos. No, sorry. In #1, if you have one fisher, I'm going to assume you're weighing him or her. Or can at least guess his weight a little closer than that. And in #2, all three fishers together weigh between 3 and 7 kilos.
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Telling time: a quarter or quarter [to/past] - WordReference Forums
Probably the best-known instance of its omission is the song"One For My Baby," by Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen (the most famous recording was by Frank Sinatra). It's a"story song," and the singer, whose girlfriend has just left him, is sitting in a bar at 2:45 a.m. In the opening lines, he addresses the bartender:"It's quarter to three.
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three times as many / twice as many | WordReference Forums
Three times as many voted for A as for B. A got three times as many votes as B. A got three votes for every one vote that B got. If A got 30 votes, B got 10 votes Now repeat for A and C. Twice as many people voted for A as for C A got twice as many votes as C A got two votes for every one vote that C got. If A got 30 votes, C got 15 votes.
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How can I read this in English? m³ (3-small 3) - exponent
Apr 22, 2010. #4. An easy way to remember this is that a square with side m has an area equal to m times m, or m^2 (m-squared), and a cube with side m has volume equal to m times m times m, or m^3 (m-cubed). If m is the unit"meter," then you read these as copyright stated. (m^2 means m with an exponent (superscript) of 2.)
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