Terrible question It would be seconteen, not twoteen Its thirteen, not threeteen
I'm 12 & why is 12 pronounced 'twelve' instead of 'twoteen'. Fair question, actually.https://twitter.com/kph3k/status/1244742351865733121 …
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So sixteen should be sixthteen?
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While we’re at it, why isn’t eleven pronounced “one-teen”?
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Ten-hundred likes for you
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@JohnHMcWhorter did an episode about this:https://podbay.fm/podcast/500673866/e/1516728419 …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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What about oneteen?
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Because our predecessors likely had duodecimal hands
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Even weirder are the french numbers from 80 on, for something like 99 (quatre vingt dix neuf) is "four twenties a ten and a nine"
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No it should be ‘ten-one, ten-two, ten-three’ etc to make it the same as the rest of the two digit numbers ‘twenty-one’ etc
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And 60 is the least common multiple of both 10 and 12.
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