Abby began to hum a simple, wordless ditty in four-fourtime.
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Sometimes the song's done traditional, you know, four-fourtime, but the words are in English, so that makes it half English, half Hawaiian.
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In place of: "two-two time, three-eight time, four-fourtime," say as above: "This piece is written in two-half measure, three-eighth measure, four-quarter measure."