PugJesus@piefed.socialM to History Memes@piefed.socialEnglish · 3 months agoPretty fly for a white guymedia.piefed.socialimagemessage-square39linkfedilinkarrow-up1441
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minus-squareSubArcticTundra@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·3 months agoI think it’s also used in archaic English ‘four and twenty blackbirds, baked in a pie’
minus-squareSerinus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·3 months agoFour score and seven years ago
minus-squarevaultdweller013@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 months agoThe and is a bit weird but I do sometimes break large numbers down like that, for example if I’m looking at an address I won’t say 1050 I won’t say one thousand fifty ill say ten fifty.
minus-squareMinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 months agono that’s 420 blackbirds. it’s a very high pie.
I think it’s also used in archaic English ‘four and twenty blackbirds, baked in a pie’
Four score and seven years ago
The and is a bit weird but I do sometimes break large numbers down like that, for example if I’m looking at an address I won’t say 1050 I won’t say one thousand fifty ill say ten fifty.
no that’s 420 blackbirds. it’s a very high pie.
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