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Re:ISO 8601: a better date format by shdon on Friday February 26, 2021 @05:32AM (#26273361)
And since the French say ten nine instead of nineteen, it becomes four twenties ten nine.
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Re:ISO 8601: a better date format by rswail on Friday February 26, 2021 @08:00AM (#26274315)
But nineteen is just "nine and ten" with the "and" removed.

English has a word for twenty and its used in the French way "Four score and seven years" is "quatre-vingts et sept".

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