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0 pointsmariotacke2y ago0 comments

Interesting. I wonder if this is related to how Germans count/pronounce numbers. 21 in your example is "einundzwanzig" in German (or "ein-und-zwanzig", "one-and-twenty")

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zeven72y ago

I think in this case it’s because Hebrew is read right to left, so unrelated.

dhosek2y ago

Yep. The reversed order is also something that you see in archaic English, for example the nursery rhyme, “four and twenty blackbirds”

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0 pointsmariotacke2y ago0 comments

Interesting. I wonder if this is related to how Germans count/pronounce numbers. 21 in your example is "einundzwanzig" in German (or "ein-und-zwanzig", "one-and-twenty")

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zeven72y ago

I think in this case it’s because Hebrew is read right to left, so unrelated.

dhosek2y ago

Yep. The reversed order is also something that you see in archaic English, for example the nursery rhyme, “four and twenty blackbirds”

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