According to the Cambridge Corpus of American English, Americans strongly prefer triple as an adjective, noun and verb. British and Australian writers, on the other hand, seem to use both triple and treble, but with treble more frequent as a verb and triple as a noun and adjective. Fowler distinguished between treble meaning that something had become three times as large in size, and triple ...
"Triple threat" means things in different contexts. For performers, it refers to someone who excels at acting, singing, and dancing. In basketball, it refers to a person who has the option to pass,...
Plenty of English words have a non-doubled consonant letter after a short vowel. The only time when you can expect consonant doubling to systematically apply after a short vowel is before certain suffixes (such as -ing, -ed, -er, -est, -ist). But in a non-suffixed word like triple, there isn't an easy way to predict the spelling from the pronunciation or vice versa. The spelling "tripple" was ...
etymology - Why is the word "triple" spelt with 1 p although tri is an ...
I forget what the word for 5 times is. I know it is single, double, triple, quadruple but forgot what the one for 5 is.
There are many triple entendres in HipHop, although not respected by most writers and english enthusiasts, HipHop has produce some of the most wittiest lines I've personally ever heard.
What is the proper way of using triple dots and spaces before/after them? Asked 14 years, 11 months ago Modified 5 years, 5 months ago Viewed 182k times
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