sixten

They have the volume, the pipes, the ability to cram sixten notes per syllable in a Mariah Carey attack of malicious melisma, and they use these qualities-which, after all, they've seen rewarded for years on American Idol-to flay the skin off several decades' of pop standards.

American Idol Sings Itself - Tuned In - TIME.com 2006

Since the date of my last letter the enemy have continued to persevere unceasingly in their efforts against this position & the firing has never ceased day or night; they have about [Greek: sixten] guns in position round us -- many of them 18 p'rs.

Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places Archibald Forbes 1869

God, I say, that sixten hundred yeare after you were dead and gone, it may trewly be sayd, that for siluer, there is more cumlie plate, in one Citie of England, than is in foure of the proudest Cities in all Italie, and take Rome for one of them.

The Scholemaster 1570

God, I say, that sixten hundred yeare after you were dead and gone, it may trewly be sayd, that for siluer, there is more cumlie plate, in one Citie of England, than is in foure of the proudest Cities in all _Italie_, and take _Rome_ for one of them.

The Schoolmaster Roger Ascham 1541