Re: The English/French counting system (WAS: number systems fromconlangs)

At 05:00 PM 9/15/03 -0500, you wrote:
>Isidora Zamora wrote:
> > Oh, yes.  I forgot to mention that Danish also counts one-and-twenty,
> > two-and-twenty, etc.
>
>How far up do they do that?  Do they go all the way to "nine and
>ninety"?  What about "five and twenty and one hundred" for 125?
99 is ni og halvfems, which, as best I can make out must be intended to
mean something like "nine and halfway to the fifth twenty" because "fem" is
'five"

125 is "et hundred fem og tyve" "one hundred five and twenty.

(And I may have gotten the spacing or the spelling wrong on these.  I'm
used to saying numerals, not seeing them written out.  And it's been a long
time since I've used Danish much.)

Isidora