Why Don’t More Numbers Have Names?
Some years ago, The Numbers Committee noted that not enough numbers had fun nicknames. Other than “a couple,” “a dozen” and “a baker’s dozen,” most numbers were stuck with names like “sixteen” or “forty.”
Here then are the efforts of the committee to name every known number:
-13: A Greek Fortnight
0: An Irish Dozen
1: The Big Boner Number
2: A Couple
3: Airtight
Pi: Guy
4: Condoleeza
5: An Australian Double Date
6: Stan, or “the dude”
7: An Agent’s Dozen
8 : Double Nugget
9: The Big Wave
10: The Beer Can (when you receive a blank stare upon using this, follow it up with “you know, the flip top…”)
11: A Swiss Dozen