"It takes three trees to make a row"

[Charles Doyle]

Doing a little research, I discover that Archibald Hill credited the aphorism "It takes three trees to make a row" to Martin Joos (in a conversation); Hill's obituary on Joos in _Language_ 55 (1979):666.

--Charlie
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