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I always cringe when I see this "treble damages" because it must be a person who doesn't understand English very well. Tri_p_le is spelled with a _P_ after all
by yebyen 13y ago
I always cringe when I see this "treble damages" because it must be a person who doesn't understand English very well. Tri_p_le is spelled with a _P_ after all, isn't it?
Then I googled it and found out that is actually the name of the law. It means triple damages. It's from British English and the phrase is still correct in American English.
facepalm
- freehunter 13y agoThere are people who seemingly understand English just fine but they carry around a labtop in their bag.
- yebyen 13y agoArabs often drink bebsi because in their native language, there is no letter p. For everyone else, there's no excuse! /rant
- corin_ 13y agoTriple is used more than Treble in British English as well, but both are completely correct here.
- koli 13y agoDouble/treble Duplicate/triplicate Duplex/triplex Duple/triple? 'Triple' is the weird root-isolation here.
- talmand 13y agodouble/triple/quadruple? or double/treble/quadruble? I'm more familiar with treble being used in music but I'm aware of various uses of representing three in some way. The idea being the English language is a fun thing.
- toyg 13y agoThe original Latin verb from which numerals are built is "plicare", which is why in italian you have basically the same word as the original Latin: multiplicare (multiply), duplicare (to double), triplicare (to triple) etc. I guess the softer "b" versions come from some French influence.
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- Zuider 13y agoWell, the melody of "happy birthday" is written in the treble cleff.