Today I found out there is nothing that comes after the sequence “once, twice, thrice”.
Interestingly, even though these words are roughly equivalent, differing only in the numeric value they refer to, it is now considered poor English to use “thrice” instead of the equivalent “three times”. At the same time, it is considered poor English to use “one time” instead of “once”, which seems odd given “thrice” is now taboo. Just as odd, “twice” is currently considered equally as proper as “two times” in modern English.
So what we now have here is “once” being proper to use; twice being acceptable, but not necessarily preferred over its equivalent “two times”; “thrice” being a no-no; and then nothing beyond that. English!
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Maybe this is a British thing? It’s news to me in the USA
Actually, frice is the fourth number that comes after it, though it is used rarely and often only in satirical situations.
@Nokkenbuer: That’s been popping up recently, but still hasn’t made its way into the dictionaries of the world. Oxford, for instance still only goes with once, twice, thrice. Of course, English is always evolving, so some day frice might work its way into the language officially.
I believe this is known as the Lionel Richie Rule
“You’re once, twice, three times a lady”… yep, your story checks out. That Lionel Ritchie was always on the cutting edge of the latest grammatical standards!
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*Head explodes*