On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Casey Rousseau wrote: > Philip Hart wrote: > > 4. Oaths - touching that Piro has adopted "Cha!". Rather chilling that > > the Musketeers (except Aerich?) use "Star me", hearkening back to the > > nearly-abrupt conclusion of PG. I found "The Trey", presumably appearing > > to complement Verra's sisters, rather jarring. > > Somehow, I saw no connection to the three goddesses in that interjection. I > read it as similar to "The Deuce!" an oath exclaiming bad luck (perhaps > related to dice throwing? - snake eyes?) perhaps with some similar > connection to a game of chance. There was one instance in the text that > Deuce was used perhaps inadvertently instead of Trey. I think Mark Mandel > noted it and thought that this might explain the apparent copy editing error > that there are one or two instances where Trey is not capitalized. Maybe the above is relevant to some recent discussion. Amusingly, "the deuce" is a euphemism for "the devil" - maybe "the trey" is a similar euphemism.