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   From: jbb@notatt.com   
      
   On 3/5/2025 1:00 PM, David Entwistle wrote:   
   > On Wed, 5 Mar 2025 08:05:10 +0000, HenHanna wrote:   
   >   
   >>                            going up to  Thousand.   
   >   
   > Good point. In English we have "a pair" and "a brace", both meaning two. I   
   > suspect we could manage to arrive at a number including the letter 'a',   
   > which is less than a thousand, without resorting to dialect.   
      
   What about "a" or "an", words that denote a single entity in many contexts?   
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