• callyral [he/they]
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    49 months ago

    some (very few, i think it’s only the “teens”) english numbers are like that, like seventeen (7+10) for example

    • BarqsHasBite
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      9 months ago

      Kind of. Those are distinct names rather than seven+ten. It took a long time until I even made that connection that teen probably came from ten.