Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder1.enfer-du-nord.net!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!usenet.ukfsn.org!not-for-mail From: Martin Gregorie Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: number and words Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 15:12:25 +0000 (UTC) Organization: UK Free Software Network Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <7d4884d6-aebf-436e-8a76-1e2a3bf10c8b@n1g2000vby.googlegroups.com> <12ed676d-b3c2-409d-bce2-0e731adf8aeb@n4g2000vbz.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 84.45.235.129 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: localhost.localdomain 1336057945 29985 84.45.235.129 (3 May 2012 15:12:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@localhost.localdomain NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 15:12:25 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Pan/0.135 (Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea; GIT 30dc37b master) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:14186 On Wed, 02 May 2012 16:20:48 -0700, Daniel wrote: > On 2 Maj, 23:23, Roedy Green wrote: >> On Wed, 2 May 2012 13:55:00 -0700 (PDT), Daniel >> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted >> someone who said : >> >> >in english: >> >123 one hundred twenty three >> >> >in german: >> >123 eins hudrer deiund zwanzig >> Surely "ein hundert drei und zwanzig" or, as a simpler example 21 = "twenty one" or "ein und zwanzig", but it wasn't all that long ago that English also used the German spoken number order, as in "a maid of just one and twenty summers" -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org |