The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldM to memes@lemmy.world · 11 months agoConsistencylemmy.worldimagemessage-square58fedilinkarrow-up1644arrow-down150
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minus-squaredubslinkfedilinkarrow-up5·11 months agoI remember counting using onety-one etc. before I started kindergarten 😆 no idea how I still remember that but I do.
minus-squareSwedneck@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-211 months 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”.