There's a nursery rhyme,Sing a Song of Sixpence, which has "Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie", so English wrote out numbers the same was German does.

There's a nursery rhyme,Sing a Song of Sixpence, which has "Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie", so English wrote out numbers the same was German does. The King James version (1605) consistently writes out numbers in this way, e.g. Leviticus 12.4: And she shall then continue in the blood of her purifying three and thirty days ... Genesis 11.16: And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg ... Genesis 11.12: And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years ... What about more recent? In David Copperfield (1850) by Charles Dickens, we find: "About five-and-twenty boys were studiously engaged at their books when we went in ..."