>\Hehe, when I was learning Dutch, I've had to get used to getting units
>before tens (eenentwintig for twenty-one for instance) and to the fact
>that Dutch counts time in half hours, and that half hours are given
>corresponding to the *next* hour, not the one they're currently in!!!! So
>"half past one" is in Dutch "half twee" ("half two" in literal
>translation) and "twenty past one" becomes "tien voor half twee"
>(literally "ten before half two").
Oh, yes. I forgot to mention that Danish also counts one-and-twenty,
two-and-twenty, etc. That took a while to get used to. I was very slow in
processing numbers at first because of this.
Isidora