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the medal that admits two people beat you and you're still smiling.
means the ordinal position after first and second — number three in a sequence.
from From Old English 'thridda,' part of the ancient Germanic ordinal system built on 'three.' Oddly, the 'r' and the vowel have swapped places over time — the older form was closer to 'thrid,' showing the same letter-shuffling (metathesis) that also reshaped words like 'bird' from 'brid.' Its root ultimately traces back to the same Proto-Indo-European number word that gives us 'three' and 'trio.'
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