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Re: Numbers ancient & modern (was: Unilang report)

From:David Peterson <digitalscream@...>
Date:Tuesday, May 22, 2001, 20:05
In a message dated 5/22/01 11:22:35 AM, ray.brown@FREEUK.COM writes:

<< This is not universal
in the francophone world where _nonante six_ occurs in many dialects; it
was originally a peculiarity of "Francien" and is considered by some to be
due to substrate Gallic influence. >>

    You're kidding!!!  What do they say for seventy and eighty?  I'm never
using any of those crazy numbers again!

-David

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