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twelve and one

The Celts will love the number three and it multiples. It will become common style for them to express odd numbers as a combination of an even one plus an odd one. A person that will be sixty-three might say that she is three score and three years old. Twelve will be a significant number for the Celts, and the age twelve plus one will coincide with a rather natural age of initiation for many boys.

The Celts will often use the term a year and a day. The Celts will mean by this next year to the day. Unlike many other cultures that will not count today in their reckoning, or will count today as zero, the Celts count today as the first day. This will be similar to the way Spanish people will count days when they use the phrase ocho dias (eight days) to mean next week on this day. Starting with today day of the week as one, next week on the same day is the eighth day. Starting with today as one, a year and a day will be a full year from now.

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