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This is getting tangential, but the French way of counting seems to be even more strange with certain numbers. 93 is "quatre-vingt-treize", i.e. "four-twenties-
by ptaipale 12y ago
This is getting tangential, but the French way of counting seems to be even more strange with certain numbers. 93 is "quatre-vingt-treize", i.e. "four-twenties-and-thirteen".
(Except in Belgium and Switzerland and this-one-valley-in-Italy et cetera, where it is just "nonante-trois".)
Compared to that, "drei-und-neunzig" is still not bad.
- cafard 12y agoApparently it was common in the south as well. Some writer who was fined in the 19th Century then lampooned the magistrate as "Monsieur Nonante-Cinque", the fine having been 95 francs.