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minus-squaredubslinkfedilink5•2 years agoI remember counting using onety-one etc. before I started kindergarten 😆 no idea how I still remember that but I do.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•edit-22 years agotbf it probably would have been that if there wasn’t a period where we counted a lot of stuff in twelves and twenties, that left special words for 11, 12, and 20, with 12 and 20 especially getting the superspecial words “dozen” and “score”.
I remember counting using onety-one etc. before I started kindergarten 😆 no idea how I still remember that but I do.
tbf it probably would have been that if there wasn’t a period where we counted a lot of stuff in twelves and twenties, that left special words for 11, 12, and 20, with 12 and 20 especially getting the superspecial words “dozen” and “score”.