Author Topic: Six or half-a-dozen? (Read 1830 times)

Matthew · « **on:** June 10, 2016, 09:40:44 PM »

In the great tradition of several recent threads:

Holy Ghost or Holy Spirit?
Kid/kids or Child/children?
God bless or God bless you?

I thought I'd make fun of these a bit by adding another one:

Which is better?
Six, or half a dozen?

Matthew · « **Reply #1 on:** June 10, 2016, 09:42:56 PM »

Quote from: Matthew

Which is better?
Six, or half a dozen?

Definitely "six".

Half-a-dozen is for protestant heretics.

mw2016 · « **Reply #2 on:** June 10, 2016, 10:40:00 PM »

Quote from: Matthew

In the great tradition of several recent threads:

Holy Ghost or Holy Spirit?
Kid/kids or Child/children?
God bless or God bless you?

I thought I'd make fun of these a bit by adding another one:

Which is better?
Six, or half a dozen?

LOL

clare · « **Reply #3 on:** June 11, 2016, 05:28:27 AM »

Quote from: Matthew

Quote from: Matthew

Which is better?
Six, or half a dozen?

Definitely "six".

Half-a-dozen is for protestant heretics.

Ah, but six three times is the Number of the Beast. Half a dozen is less demonic.

:scratchchin:

Nick · « **Reply #4 on:** June 11, 2016, 09:09:14 AM »

Depends if you speak with a New Zealand accent, or not.
:farmer:

TKGS · « **Reply #5 on:** June 11, 2016, 05:39:08 PM »

My mother used to say that it was six of one and half a dozen of the other.

Nadir · « **Reply #6 on:** June 12, 2016, 02:43:48 AM »

Quote from: Nick

Depends if you speak with a New Zealand accent, or not.
:farmer:

Good one, Nick!
For those not in the know Kiwis prounce six "sex".

Nadir · « **Reply #7 on:** June 12, 2016, 04:08:19 AM »

Quote from: Matthew

Which is better?
Six, or half a dozen?

Depends on whether or not it's a baker's dozen.

Nick · « **Reply #8 on:** June 13, 2016, 03:37:07 AM »

In that case, I'll take six And a half please.
:ready-to-eat:

Peter15and1 · « **Reply #9 on:** June 14, 2016, 08:00:42 AM »

jen51 · « **Reply #10 on:** June 14, 2016, 12:02:12 PM »

It depends on what you're talking about.

Where I come from (the sticks), half a dozen is commonly used when talking about food items (especially eggs) and animals. The old men almost always say half a dozen.