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 Twelve …
- Apostles
- Drummers drumming
- Jurymen
- Months of the year
- Signs of the zodiac
- Books in Anthony Powell’s sequence A Dance to the Music of Time
- Pairs of human ribs
- Days of Christmas
- Men who’ve walked on the Moon
- Pennies in a shilling
- Tribes of Israel
- Players in a shinty team