• jaaake@lemmy.world
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    30 days ago

    The last. Much like Americans with their dates, English would occasionally jumble up the unit order.

      • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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        30 days ago

        Pray tell what is wrong with quatre vignt y douze?

        Other than the fact that it has been decades since I took French and probably misspelled every single word there.

        Their way of counting just makes it more frequent to encounter 420