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Interesting. I wonder if this is related to how Germans count/pronounce numbers. 21 in your example is "einundzwanzig" in German (or "ein-und-zwanzig", "one-and

Interesting. I wonder if this is related to how Germans count/pronounce numbers. 21 in your example is "einundzwanzig" in German (or "ein-und-zwanzig", "one-and-twenty")

zeven7 3y ago
I think in this case it’s because Hebrew is read right to left, so unrelated.
- dhosek 3y ago
  Yep. The reversed order is also something that you see in archaic English, for example the nursery rhyme, “four and twenty blackbirds”