Timeline for I've said it once, I've said it twice, I've said it a thousand times
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| Mar 4, 2015 at 6:26 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | @MariLouA You might enjoy King James's thrice-happy peace. ;-) | |
| Feb 27, 2015 at 22:01 | vote | accept | Mari-Lou A | ||
| Feb 27, 2015 at 22:01 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | Thank you for a very informative and readable answer, which made a lot of sense :) | |
| Feb 27, 2015 at 20:33 | comment | added | Random832 | Or, for that matter, why we have "eleven" and "twelve" instead of a hypothetical "oneteen, twoteen" (I assume derived from some old english equivalent of "X and ten") | |
| Feb 27, 2015 at 15:22 | comment | added | Robusto | @JanusBahsJacquet: Indeed it does. | |
| Feb 27, 2015 at 15:18 | history | edited | tchrist♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 27, 2015 at 10:41 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | @FumbleFingers A lot of them have been obscured later on by adding an unetymological -t (probably taken over from the superlatives in -est): against, amongst, betwixt, whilst, etc. But there are others that still retain just -s, like besides and the variants in -wards. | |
| Feb 27, 2015 at 8:24 | comment | added | Fattie | {Sorry I didn't realie this A answers ML's first question, at the bottom of the OP.} | |
| Feb 27, 2015 at 3:47 | history | edited | tchrist♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 27, 2015 at 3:29 | history | edited | tchrist♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 27, 2015 at 2:49 | comment | added | ermanen | @Mari-LouA: According to OED, the usual word in Old English and early Middle English is sithe. (earliest recorded forms are siða and sið). In Middle English, it turned into tymes. And then times. | |
| Feb 27, 2015 at 2:16 | history | edited | tchrist♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 27, 2015 at 2:01 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | @FumbleFingers always and sometimes came to my mind, and then I got stuck :) | |
| Feb 27, 2015 at 1:51 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | I was going to comment about what a concise summary of the situation you've given. But it's a bit too concise for me. The only class of "adverbs ending in s" I can think of offhand are [dialectal?] forms like anyways, somewheres. | |
| Feb 27, 2015 at 1:46 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | And what were "four times" and "five times" in Old and Middle English? If they too had the -es/s suffix, when did the term time/s take over? | |
| Feb 27, 2015 at 1:19 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | @JanusBahsJacquet Gee, and here I thought you were here to remind people of þrisvar. :) | |
| Feb 27, 2015 at 1:18 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | Depends on the native speaker ;-) | |
| Feb 27, 2015 at 1:06 | history | answered | tchrist♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |