Counters

Each month this year we’re bringing you a post under the general title “Things that Count in [Number]” where [Number] will be the month. And naturally each month’s post will contain the [Number] of items (so just one for January, up to 12 for December).

For our purposes the definition of counting includes things which either come in groups of [Number] (eg. four suits in a pack of playing cards) or things which count in [Number] (eg. decimal coinage counting in tens).

Things which Count in Nine …

  1. Ladies dancing
  2. Cats’ lives
  3. Worlds in Norse mythology
  4. Members of the Fellowship of the Ring
  5. Innings in a baseball game
  6. Muses in Greek mythology
  7. Circles of Hell
  8. Lights on a Hanukkah Menorah
  9. Orders of Angels in Christian mythology