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  2. Non-numerical words for quantities - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Indefinite and fictitious numbers - Wikipedia

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    Some words that have a precise numerical definition can be used indefinitely. For example: couple (2), [21] dozen (12), score (20); myriad (10,000). When a quantity word is prefixed with an indefinite article then it is sometimes intended or interpreted to be indefinite. For example, "one million" is clearly definite, but "a million" could be ...

  4. List of commonly misused English words - Wikipedia

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    a lot and allot. A lot means "many" or "much"; allot means to distribute something. abdicate, abnegate, abrogate, and arrogate. [1] [2] To abdicate is to resign from the throne, or more loosely to cast off a responsibility. To abnegate is to deny oneself something.

  5. Grammatical number - Wikipedia

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    A few languages have specific parts of speech that distinguish between two number categories: one or two, and more than two. The former category can be thought of as a single conflated singular-dual number. [257] For example, in the nouns of Kalaw Lagaw Ya: [258] [259] ùmay - "dog(s)" (one or two) ùmayl - "dogs" (plural, three or more)

  6. English determiners - Wikipedia

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    The words you and we share features commonly associated with both determiners and pronouns in constructions such as we teachers do not get paid enough. On the one hand, the phrase-initial position of these words is a characteristic they share with determiners (compare the teachers).

  7. Numeral (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    An example are the Epi languages of Vanuatu, where 5 is luna 'hand', 10 lua-luna 'two hand', 15 tolu-luna 'three hand', etc. 11 is then lua-luna tai 'two-hand one', and 17 tolu-luna lua 'three-hand two'. 5 is a common auxiliary base, or sub-base, where 6 is 'five and one', 7 'five and two', etc. Aztec was a vigesimal (base-20) system with sub ...

  8. How to build your own target-date retirement fund [Video] - AOL

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    Step 1.Pick a date and research. I started by choosing my target date, in other words, the year I expected to retire. Then I researched target-date fund families to find a fund with the date I wanted.

  9. One-letter word - Wikipedia

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    One-letter words play a role in the Oulipian [155] constraint, a form of rhopalic verse in which the first line consists of a one-letter word. [156] But above all, they are the subject of a notable experiment by François Le Lionnais, dating from 1957 and published in La Littérature potentielle in 1973, of "Réduction d'un poème à une seule ...