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Re:Why are German numbers backwards? by qw on Sunday November 28, 2021 @11:04AM (#29369937)
Norway has an alternative that is the same as the Germans. (175 - hundred and five and seventy)

It was more popular in the past, but is still used in many dialects.

Re:Why are German numbers backwards? by eitland on Sunday November 28, 2021 @12:32PM (#29370857)
I grew up with both the old one and the new one so I sometimes say it the old way and I am almost happy that my kids don't understand it immediately so I have to correct myself.

Fun fact: it was actually decided in Stortinget (the supreme legislature of Norway) in November 1950 and implemented in July 1951, as far as I know the only time a matter of how to pronounce something has been decided at that level.

Re:Why are German numbers backwards? by vidarh on Monday November 29, 2021 @10:53AM (#29381239)
Norway have had at least half a dozen language reforms in parliament that dictate the written language, and so indirectly pronunciation.

E.g. the 1907 reform removed a lot of soft consonants in favour of harder ones (e.g. "løb" -> "løp", "kage" -> "kake").

Most of them, incidentally, reducing the similarity with Danish...