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submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago (1 children)

To be fair, it is kinda dumb that four has a U, but forty doesn't.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, but then we'd have to say onety, twoty, threety and fivety as well. Just take it as its own word rather than four+ty and it'll make more sense, I think.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

I've always been a proponent of onety-two.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Okay but forty and fourty are pronunced the same way. And I'm sure fivety wouldn't sound funny if thats how we started off.

Edit: and seventy, eighty, ninety all use their original number spelling.