Dozen – Blog EBE https://englishbookgeorgia.com/blogebg English Book Education Mon, 24 Nov 2014 09:10:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://englishbookgeorgia.com/blogebg/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/cropped-English-Book-Education-Symbol-02-32x32.png Dozen – Blog EBE https://englishbookgeorgia.com/blogebg 32 32 Interesting Words and Expressions: Baker’s Dozen https://englishbookgeorgia.com/blogebg/interesting-words-and-expressions-bakers-dozen/ Tue, 08 Jul 2014 07:04:13 +0000 http://englishbookgeorgia.com/blogebg/?p=1354 Baker's Dozen

Baker’s Dozen – a group of thirteen (= one more than a dozen).

Origin: this phrase comes from baker’s old custom of adding one extra loaf to an order of a dozen

 

 

 

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