23 points
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English used to be that way as well:
Sing a song of sixpence
A pocket full of rye
Four and twenty blackbirds
Baked in a pie.
In these lyrics “four and twenty” means 24
10 points
Which actually makes sense when you remember that English, before the Normans at least, was very close to dutch.
15 points
And it’s all because they are germanic languages (at least old English is), and this is the same in German (vier und zwanzig).
7 points
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