Tables and cups

When a table has four legs it is just called a table. But when a table has three legs it is invariably called a three-legged table, as if it were not a proper table. A cup with one handle is called a cup, but a cup with two handles is called a two-handled cup. If lacking a leg makes a table less of a table, then surely having an extra handle should make a cup more of a cup.

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