Pretty fly for a white guy 20th Century History (media.piefed.social)
 
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[–] 80 points 6 months ago (11 children)

The archaic way of enumerating things in prose “two and ninety” is the best part. Perfect comedic reveal.

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  • [–] 24 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    I think it's also used in archaic English 'four and twenty blackbirds, baked in a pie'

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

    The last. Much like Americans with their dates, English would occasionally jumble up the unit order.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    German still does this. The French are even worse.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago*

    Pray tell what is wrong with quatre vignt y douze?

    Other than the fact that it has been decades since I took French and probably misspelled every single word there.

    Their way of counting just makes it more frequent to encounter 420

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