I've realized from this thread that I have a weird way of reading multiplication that feels very antiquated. I have nothing to add to your comment or the conversation, I just felt like it fits a bit here, where you referenced the antiquated "score" counting.

In my head, I don't read that as "four times twenty plus ten" it's "four by twenty plus ten"

I have no idea where that came from, and I need to ask family members if they do it too