Talk:six
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"Describing a set or group with six components." Not got any idea what this is supposed to mean. If it were up to me, we could move the other sense to the noun section. Six is just a noun, it has a plural and can be used countably in the singular (a six). Mglovesfun (talk) 23:27, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
- Other numbers have that sense too, cf. four or three. -- Liliana • 00:02, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
- Counter-argument to my argument; in "there are six chairs" six isn't being used as a noun, so it needs a part of speech other than noun. Perhaps that's what this sense refers to. Comments? --Mglovesfun (talk) 11:31, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
- I think what we really ought to do is have a Tea Room discussion where we work out what senses cardinals have and agree on how we should define them. Then we implement this project wide all at once instead of doing it piece-meal. --EncycloPetey 21:28, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
- Mathématically speaking, it is enough to define it as five plus one. Any positive integer other than 1 can be defined so. — TAKASUGI Shinji (talk) 03:40, 15 February 2016 (UTC)
- I think what we really ought to do is have a Tea Room discussion where we work out what senses cardinals have and agree on how we should define them. Then we implement this project wide all at once instead of doing it piece-meal. --EncycloPetey 21:28, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
- Counter-argument to my argument; in "there are six chairs" six isn't being used as a noun, so it needs a part of speech other than noun. Perhaps that's what this sense refers to. Comments? --Mglovesfun (talk) 11:31, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
- Looks good now --WF on Holiday (talk) 09:18, 18 August 2017 (UTC)
"Sixes" in hymnology?[edit]
Chambers has this sense under six: "(plural) in hymnology, a quatrain in trochaic measure, the lines of three feet or six syllables". I couldn't find it in a cursory search of Google Books. Equinox ◑ 22:08, 13 June 2019 (UTC)
The second audio file is barely audible[edit]
The volume setting is abnormal and it can not be properly heared.
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--Wisdood (talk) 13:47, 21 September 2020 (UTC)
toilet[edit]
I remember seeing a discussion, possibly here, about six meaning bathroom or toilet. It's tempting to connect it to the military slang, since the toilet is in back of the plane, but this slang sense might be older than planes themselves and it wouldn't explain the strong connection with Wales. —Soap— 01:33, 13 May 2023 (UTC)