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Very familiar with BOC but I have no idea what you mean here. Can you explain this?
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English doesn't have proper words for 13 to 19.
I'd argue we do have proper words for 13-19, but don't have proper words for 11&12
I feel like most other European languages I have heard do not either. (Well, what is "proper" anyways?) Care to share a language that does?
You need to ask OP. I'm just using "proper word" within the same context that OP is using.
I'd guess ten one, ten two, ten three
It comes from way before French. Some tribe, Celts, or whatever, call them Gauls, although it doesn't really mean anything other that "people who live in that area according to the Romans", counted in twenties. And that's one of the things they've left us. For better or for worse.
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Just wait until you find out how the Dutch count.
What's wrong with "five hundred five and fifty thousand five hundred five and fifty"? /s
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What do you think "seven -ty" is. Seven ten
In French:
70 is said "sixty ten" so 72 is "sixty twelve."
80 is "four twenties."
90 is "four twenties and a ten" so 99 is "four twenties and nineteen.
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Yeah Danish is a bit wild with numbers too.
Parce qu'on a eu la Gaule trop longtemps !
70 = Sixty-ten? Ridiculous, it's obviously half-fourths.
But 70,80,90 are English numbers