One time, two times, three times a lady

Doesn't quite have the same ring, does it?
When was the last time you heard someone use the word "thrice"? The answer, I suspect, is never. The word is now confined to novels of the 19th century. Nobody ever uses the word in conversation today, and as my wife observed in her dealings with her students, the word "twice" is going the same way. All the young folk now say "two times", and I was wondering when the same thing is going to happen to "once".
The English language is evolving in real time as it has always done, and it's no good old farts like me complaining- it's as much use as trying to hold back the tide.

A dear friend of mine gets very exercised when he hears the word "unique" misused; indeed, he gets so worked up about it steam comes screaming from his ears whenever he does. The word stands alone, he argues, meaning the "only one" and cannot therefore be qualified by words like "very", "totally" etc. It's like "top". You can't be very top, or quite top, just top. But he's trying to hold back the tide too. The word unique now no longer means unique, but only "very unusual", at least in everyday speech, and he's going to have to get used to it if he is not to have a cardy over it. Other examples include the word "dice" for a single die (who ever says that any more?) and the confusion between the terms "less" and "fewer". It won't be long before the words are interchangeable, whatever Fowler's Modern English Usage might have to say about it.

So let's go with the flow, rather than face a losing battle against the march of history. Language has always been about communication, and that is the real point here. TTFN!