(CHAT) Re: I'm new!
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, October 22, 2000, 22:54 |
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Adrian Morgan wrote:
>I remember, as a kid, wondering what the correct word might be for the
>fraction 1/21 (half, third, quarter, ... twenty-wunth)
>
>So I asked Dad, "What is the [T:] number for twenty-one?"
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>He had no idea what I meant, and I never did find out :-)
>
During my glorious stint in the Army, pounding a typewriter, a sweet,
Gomer-Pyle-type in the office decided he'd save a few steps by predating
some forms...so he filled in ...l8th, l9th, 20th, 21th, 22th..... Nobody
had the heart to correct him (ultimately he did realize what he'd
done.......), and probably noone in Higher Echelons noticed anyway.