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

On Wed, 23 May 2001, Raymond Brown wrote:

> At 4:05 pm -0400 22/5/01, David Peterson wrote:
> >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!
>
> 70 = septante /sEta~t/
> 80 = octante
>
> Still commonly used in Belgium, Switzerland & south east France.
> ------------------------
>
> At 4:36 pm -0400 22/5/01, John Cowan wrote:
> >David Peterson wrote:
> >
> >>     You're kidding!!!  What do they say for seventy and eighty?
> >
> >
> >"Septante" and "huitante", of course.
>
> Not come across "huitante" before.  Where is it used?  Canada??
I've heard huitante too...can't remember where...?maybe Tunisya? myself I
say octante generally

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