A pet peeve of mine is when people count down like so:
Three, two, one ... one and a half, one and three-quarters ...
They do this because they want to drag out the "zero" moment.
Well, they're doing it wrong.
One and a half is more than one.
One and three-quarters is more than one and a half.
The person is no longer counting down, but up.
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