Re: "Twice again" and "with all good wishes"

jerry_friedman@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
FB wrote:

1) If book A is "twice again the length" of book B, does it mean
that, if book B is 100 pages long, book A is 200 pages long? or
longer than that maybe?

300 pages, as Skitt said, but I don't remember coming across "twice
again as..."

I was copying the style found in M-W Online:

- half again as : one-and-a-half times as <half again as many>

2) This is a letter closing to a mildly formal letter:

"I hope this finds you well, with all good wishes

<signature>"

Considering that I see no reason for it (a celebration, e.g.
Christmas, or a speedy recovery), is "with all good wishes" to be
regarded as a vague hope connected with "I hope this finds you
well"? And how does it strike you?
...

It should be:

I hope this find you well.

finds

With all good wishes,
<signature>

--
Skitt (in Hayward, California)
http://www.geocities.com/opus731/
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