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Re: Numbers on zompist.com
Date: Monday, 25 October 2004 07:01 (UTC)The French do do things weirdly, don't they? ;) I sometimes think "quatre-vingt" and so on might be a relic from Basque, which has a vigesimal system as basic. It's just a theory, but I can't think of any other reason why one would use a perfectly normal decimal system up to 69, and then start doing bizarre things like quatre-vingt-dix-neuf and soixante-douze.