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On Monday, March 05, 2012 07:14:17 Sid wrote:
> doi la'oi Fr=F6jd
>=20
> English uses eleven and twelve because it's base-12, not base-10.

Proto-Germanic may have had alternating bases 12 and 10, but all modern=20
Germanic languages are strictly decimal, and "eleven" and "twelve" are just=
=20
leftovers of PGmc usage.

Some Italo-Western Romance languages switch between sixteen and seventeen,=
=20
others between fifteen and sixteen. Neither is what Latin did; Latin counte=
d up=20
to septendecim, then backward to viginti. Sometimes, for fun, I count in=20
Spanish as one did in Latin: once, doce, trece, catorce, quince, sece,=20
setence, dosdeveinte, undeveinte, veinte.

Pierre
--=20
The Black Garden on the Mountain is not on the Black Mountain.

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