Re: Numbers ancient & modern (was: Unilang report)
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, May 23, 2001, 2:08 |
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John Cowan wrote:
> > I've seen "a half a hundred" in English once or twice.
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> In Larry Niven's sf novel _Ringworld_, the quite striking phrase
> "half a thousand years" is found.
Hmm ... that might've been what I was thinking of, actually.
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