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How To Say The Number 92 In Various European Languages
Nice analysis: https://brilliantmaps.com/number-92/
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@mjack @aoeBerlin @infobeautiful pretty sure English has the Danes to thank, then, for twenty getting a special name (a "score").
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The Penguin of Evil
etchedpixels@mastodon.social@dtwx @mjack @aoeBerlin @infobeautiful It's older than that. Welsh traditional counting is in twenties and that long predates the Danes turning up and causing trouble.
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Todd Unctious
toddunctious@mastodon.ie@rl_dane @aoeBerlin @infobeautiful tooghalvfems is literally "two and half fives" - halvfems (90) is short for halvfemsindstyve (half five (4.5) times twenty). All the numbers between 50-99 are some level of crazy. But Danes don't even think about the derivation, they just say the words
halvtres (half threes) 50
tres (threes) 60
treogtres (three and threes) 63
halvfjerds (half fourths) 70
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R.L. Dane 
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That's wild π
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@rl_dane @toddunctious @aoeBerlin @infobeautiful
The decimal number systems are weird too:
Why do we say eleven and twelve and not oneteen and twoteen?
Why do we say fifteen and sixteen but twenty-five and twenty-six (in English)? (Vigesimal-influced?)
In German (π) we stay with saying the second digit before the first for numbers above 20 - we say five-twenty and six-twenty (as in π). We stick to this for numbers above 99, but only for the two least digits (we say 100+2+60 for 162).
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The Penguin of Evil
etchedpixels@mastodon.social@stekopf @rl_dane @toddunctious @aoeBerlin @infobeautiful That's from the old counting in 20s, ditto the use of fossils like three score and ten
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