- Where does the expression triple-A come from?
The term "AAA" or "triple-A" is a term mainly used nowadays in the video game industry, according to Wikipedia, for video games produced and distributed by a mid-sized or major publisher,
- Are there examples of triple entendres in English?
2 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 Eminem-Zeus "Man I gotta be doing something right, I've got 11 years of sobriety, so the only bottom Imma be hitting is if it's sodomy "
- meaning - Is there a difference between treble and triple . . .
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
- word choice - Is triple the proper counterpart of pair when . . .
'Triple' can be used as an adjective: triple crown in horse racing, triple score in a video game, a triple scoop for an ice cream cone As a noun or adjective, triple is probably the best of all the examples (the others have more context restricted usage)
- word choice - Double of, double than. Triple of, triple than - English . . .
Googling those expression between quotes does not help (about the same number of occurrences) Do Double triple use "than" or "of" after them? eg: the monthly-averaged discharges flowing through
- grammar - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
However, Fowler, writing in 1855, applies the term multiplicative numerals to words of the form single, double, triple, etc : III MULTIPLICATIVE NUMERALS, or Multiplicatives, which show the number of parts of which a whole is composed, and answer the question How many fold? as Single, double, triple, or treble, four-fold or quadruple
- Is there another word for five times, such as triple, quadruple?
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
- punctuation - Rules for three sets of quotation marks - English . . .
What rules are there for when you have three sets of quotation marks? “I saw that Julia was really annoyed when Mike answered, “‘Blade Runner,’”” John said (‘Blade Runner’ in singles Mike answe
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