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walthamstow • today at 8:45 AM • 3 replies • view on HN

Sevenfold! Whatever happened to -fold? It's all 10X this and 5X that these days, nobody says times or fold any more


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gib444 • today at 9:13 AM

The hyphen tends to get dropped when it a word becomes more ... commonplace.

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netsharc • today at 9:26 AM

My pet peeve is all the dumbasses pronouncing "10X" as "ten ex"...