• jaaake@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      10
      ·
      1 month ago

      The last. Much like Americans with their dates, English would occasionally jumble up the unit order.

        • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          8
          ·
          1 month ago

          Pray tell what is wrong with quatre vignt y douze?

          Other than the fact that it has been decades since I took French and probably misspelled every single word there.

          Their way of counting just makes it more frequent to encounter 420