Nov 3 2023 - Thrice

 

It is the beginning of November.  It is November the 3rd - it can never be November the thrice.  What is that word thrice?  It means three times as much or as many, triply, greatly, highly.  It can never be the Thrice of November.  And that's even if we get  the huge snowstorm that is three times bigger than the great Snowvember storm of 2014.  But that is later in November. So while we still say once and twice, we no longer say thrice.  There are many other things to notice about three. Look at this handy chart in Wikipedia:  Cardinal: three     Ordinal: third     Latinate ordinal: tertiary     Adverbial: three times, thrice     Multiplier: threefold     Latinate multiplier: triple     Distributive: triply     Collective: trio, threesome     Multiuse collective: triplet     Greek or Latinate collective: triad     Greek collective prefix: tri-     Latinate collective prefix: tri-     Fractional: third     Latinate fractional prefix: trient-     Elemental: thrin, triplet     Greek prefix: trito-     Number of musicians: trio, triplet     Number of years: triennium And on to jokes with the number 3.Mostly they are bad jokes or not really jokes.  Here's one that includes the number 3 or maybe the number 3 is the punchline.  Conjecture: All odd numbers are prime. Mathematician's Proof: 3 is prime. 5 is prime. 7 is prime. By induction, all odd numbers are prime. Physicist's Proof: 3 is prime. 5 is prime. 7 is prime. 9 is experimental error. 11 is prime. 13 is prime... Engineer's Proof: 3 is prime. 5 is prime. 7 is prime. 9 is prime. 11 is prime. 13 is prime ... Computer Scientists's Proof: 3 is prime. 3 is prime. 3 is prime. 3 is prime...

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