Re: Types of numerals

Mark J. Reed wrote at 2006-01-02 17:03:33 (-0500)
 > On 1/2/06, John Vertical <johnvertical@...> wrote:
 > > First off, I confess that I not sure if you'll recognize
 > > "numeral" as a word for the class of "number words" (never seen
 > > it used in that way in English; only Finnish.) If it actually is
 > > something else instead, do tell.
 >
 > I've never seen it used that way in English, either.  But I don't know
 > of another English word for what you describe; I just call them
 > "number words".  As far as I know, the English "numeral" is reserved
 > for non-word representations of numbers.

I _have_ seen it used that way in English, if not often.  In old
grammars, mainly, particularly where "number" could be confused with
the grammatical category.