Talk:three quarters

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three quarters

This is a "translation-only" entry, but none of the given translations are particularly special in any way that would require us to have a translation-only entry to host them. --WikiTiki89 02:13, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

Clear delete. Smurrayinchester (talk) 06:53, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

• We have an entry for threequarters, but is it attestable? bd2412 T 13:28, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
  • Probably. Hard-redirect to an existing article. Purplebackpack89 20:11, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
    • Why would we hard redirect an unattested term? In any case, I brought it up because COALMINE could apply, but does not actually appear to. Nonetheless, keep, as I think that fractions are such fundamental concepts that we should at least have entries for one third, two thirds, one fourth (and one quarter), three fourths (and three quarters), and maybe even the fifths. bd2412 T 15:33, 18 September 2015 (UTC)
      • Um, @BD2412, when I said hard-redirect, I didn't necessarily say hard-redirect to threequarters. We could also hard-redirect to three-quarters. That being said, I am changing my vote to keep as an alternate form. Purplebackpack89 17:03, 18 September 2015 (UTC)
        • I would disagree with that, as three-quarters is an adjective, and three quarters is often not. bd2412 T 04:03, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
          • It doesn't look like an adjective. Can you elaborate? Equinox ◑ 21:36, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
            • How would the hyphenated form be used other than as an adjective? Someone is "three-quarters" something, as opposed to numeral usage in "one half plus one quarter equals three quarters". Granted, people are probably more likely to say "fourths" rather than "quarters", but the meaning remains equivalent. bd2412 T 18:02, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
              • It's hard to say what POS this has. It may have more than one. Uses like "three-quarters full" could be attributive use of a numeral(??); other uses don't seem attributive and may be a different POS; e.g. (from Google Books) "three-quarters of a mile" and "three-quarters of a century" (both of which collocations also occur in other books with a space rather than a hyphen). Our entry for three-fourths (definition unchanged since 2006, POS added as guesswork in 2011) is a mess; the def is off (it doesn't fit uses like "three-fourths full") and the POS may also be wrong. Does CGEL say anything about what Part of Speech things like this have, @DCDuring? - -sche (discuss) 18:37, 24 September 2015 (UTC)

• Keep, but not as an alternative form. Oxford lists it as a plural noun and an adverb, not a numeral [1]. Donnanz (talk) 14:21, 20 September 2015 (UTC)
• Keep, what he said.
  - As an aside to this, surely the adjectival form would be three-quarter, without the "S". In the same way we say "Five cents", but "A five-cent coin". BTW - Adjectival forms of this type do not need entries, as they are simply grammatical constructs, otherwise we would end up with a double sized dictionary with most of the entries of the form (any number up to infinity) - (hyphen) - (any countable noun in singular). -- ALGRIF talk 13:13, 26 September 2015 (UTC)
• Delete per nom.​—msh210℠ (talk) 18:10, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
• Keep, not as an alternative form, per bd2412: let us keep a couple of fractions. --Dan Polansky (talk) 07:58, 17 October 2015 (UTC)

Kept. I am going to make a modest proposal regarding fractions soon. bd2412 T 13:58, 3 November 2015 (UTC)

three-quarters: noun

Three-quarters of a pound. --Backinstadiums (talk) 11:14, 1 December 2020 (UTC)