• barsoap@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    Instead of moving along the digits from highest to lowest, as in “Four hundreds and two tens and nine”, we do “Four hundred and nine and two tens”.

    English is less consistent, going from nine-teen to twenty-one. German stays consistent with its lower two digits.