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To: sodpoodle
10. Why isn't the number 11 pronounced onety one?

I think it would be tenty-one.
4 posted on 03/11/2019 6:23:03 AM PDT by texas_mrs (Every day a new example of liberal hypocrisy is revealed.)
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To: texas_mrs

Or oneteen. And twelve would be twoteen. Threeteen, fiveteen, etc.


10 posted on 03/11/2019 6:46:09 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: texas_mrs

Oneteen


16 posted on 03/11/2019 7:33:32 AM PDT by 75thOVI (Any sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice.)
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To: texas_mrs

Why wouldn’t 11 be firsteen and 12 secondteen? That would keep the format consistent with thirteen, fourteen, etc.


24 posted on 03/11/2019 12:48:41 PM PDT by John Semmens
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