Re: Numbers from 1-10

At 04:01 PM 8/31/03 -0700, Padraic wrote:
>--- Andrew Patterson <endipatterson@...>
>wrote:
>
> > I would be interested to know if base twelve
> > languages exist outside of
> > Africa. I suspect that proto-Germanic might
> > have had because eleven and
> > twelve don't end in -teen.
>
>It's not at all hard to count in twelves (dozens)
>in English. Same for scores. When I have need to
>count out a lot of things, I will do just that to
>break up the monotony of counting in the usual
>tens.
I also often count in scores when I have large numbers of items to
count.  It's almost easier that way.  English makes it easy.  You just
count 1-20, then 1-19 again and follow the second 19 with 40...and so on.

I don't usually count in dozens, but scores come naturally.

(We'll see if this post even arrives on the list before sometime late
Monday night.  I've been having tons of trouble with my mail.)

Isidora

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