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Majority of French speakers say 80 as "4 × 20": https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/quatre-vingts#French https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/quatre-vingts#French
by nousermane 5y ago
Majority of French speakers say 80 as "4 × 20":
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/quatre-vingts#French https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/quatre-vingts#French
- varajelle 5y agoNot "4×20", but "4 20", and in a single word that means "80" without thinking about 4 and 20. When you say eighteen, you think just "18" and not "8 teens". (Similarly, when you say "backwards" you think of the direction, not of "back wards")