Re:Why are German numbers backwards?
by FearNotDaniel on Sunday November 28, 2021 @03:20PM
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I was at school in the north of England (Yorkshire) in the late 1970s/early 80s and there were a few schoolteachers, and some old folks, who still spoke this way.
My grandmother occasionally spoke like that too (not Yorkshire)
I couldn’t figure out why she said it backwards occasionally
Re:Why are German numbers backwards?
by selimthegrim on Sunday November 28, 2021 @02:30PM
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Beat me to the blackbirds, but could it have a French source?
I guess America didn’t go with “Seven and four score years ago...” though
I checked the King James version of the Bible (1605), which consistently writes out numbers in this way, e.g.
What about more recently? In David Copperfield (1850) by Charles Dickens, we still find: