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The word two is derived from the Old English words twā (), tū (neuter), and twēġen (masculine, which survives today in the form twain). [2]The pronunciation /tuː/, like that of who is due to the labialization of the vowel by the w, which then disappeared before the related sound.
Some languages of Australia, such as Warlpiri, do not have words for quantities above two, [11] [12] [13] and neither did many Khoisan languages at the time of European contact. Such languages do not have a word class of 'numeral'. Most languages with both numerals and counting use base 8, 10, 12, or 20.
Along with numerals, and special-purpose words like some, any, much, more, every, and all, they are quantifiers. Quantifiers are a kind of determiner and occur in many constructions with other determiners, like articles: e.g., two dozen or more than a score. Scientific non-numerical quantities are represented as SI units.
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In literary criticism and rhetoric, a tautology is a statement that repeats an idea using near-synonymous morphemes, words or phrases, effectively "saying the same thing twice". [1] [2] Tautology and pleonasm are not consistently differentiated in literature. [3] Like pleonasm, tautology is often considered a fault of style when unintentional.
The widely adopted form of two equal-length strokes connecting in an acute angle at the right, >, has been found in documents dated as far back as 1631. [1] In mathematical writing, the greater-than sign is typically placed between two values being compared and signifies that the first number is greater than the second number.
Dual (abbreviated DU) is a grammatical number that some languages use in addition to singular and plural.When a noun or pronoun appears in dual form, it is interpreted as referring to precisely two of the entities (objects or persons) identified by the noun or pronoun acting as a single unit or in unison.
A roll of or bet on double-2 (a pun for two-two as in tutu) Big Red The number 7 or a bet for any 7 to appear bones A slang term for the dice box numbers The place numbers (4,5,6,8,9,10) boxcars A roll of or bet on 12