Triple-decker vs Three-decker

Triple-decker or Three-decker?

  • Triple-decker

    Votes: 40 81.6%

  • Three-decker

    Votes: 9 18.4%
  • Total voters
    49
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Triple-decker or three-decker?
 
Being in real estate, I can say I never used either. I always called them "three-families". I think it was because "decker" sounded like we were just stacking people up. Not a "buyer-friendly" term.

We should ask the King of Dorchester condo sales what he thinks ...
 
Ok, good.

I've always used triple-decker but it seems lately, I've been hearing more and more people say three-decker.

It just sounds wrong to me.
 
^^I hear and read it more often in the news, and I think it sounds a little more professional.
 
In real estate sales it should be three-family like John said.

In casual conversation it should be triple-decker, like a true Bostonian would say.
 
Its a three family when your selling it and you want out of towners to recognize it.... When you want your family to see your house, you call it the triple decker, across from the field and three houses down.

Toby I disagree. Many a Polish, Slavic and Irish persona used to live in those triple deckers.

Three decker is OK, but not what most people call it locally. Occasionally they will.
 
Ha! Don't forget Lithuanian and African American too! (But actually "Irish Battleship" was a nickname from 50 plus years ago.)
 
A rose by any other name....

Though the names are essentially interchangable, I feel that "triple decka" with four syllables degrades the non-rhoticity of the R, where "three" (with three syllables) provides a bit more emphasis:

Tri-ple-deck-a... is okay

Three-deck-a rolls nicely off the tongue.
 
Three-Decker in East Boston. Three floors, three syllables.

(You'd think there were no Italians left in this town...)
 
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