Spyke

No more time to tell how, this is the season of what / Now is the time of returning with our thought

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🎶So tonight I'm gonna party like it's oneteen onety one.🎶

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lemmy.world

Eleven hundred eleven, am I the only one who'd actually say it that way?

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mycatiskaireply
lemmy.one

I make three, anyone else agree?

Edit: added above this. Orig: There is at least eleven hundred and eleven of us but if we reply one at a time this is going to be a long chain.

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lemmy.world

yeah eleventeen would be 111, which coincidentally is the same as tenteen one

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feddit.dk

The hundreds are implied. It's fine to call it eleven hundred eleven.

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Yes. It's eleven hundred and eleven, so you can say that William the 2nd inherited Puglia in eleven eleven. He was only 16, so his mother Adela was the actual ruler from eleven eleven to eleven fourteen.

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Isn't it "eleventy eleven"? I'm sure It is if youre Pooh...or Tigger...

And if you're expecting English to be totally consistent you're going to have a bad time.

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sh.itjust.works

The 4 year old in our house consistently adds in 'eleventeen' in her counting, so we all think it's a real number now lol

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Words exist because they are used, so it can be a "real" word within your family-lect =)

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lemmy.ml

Nah. That's twoty one. Which is followed by twoty two. Just like 44 is fourty four. (don't tell me it's spelled forty I know)

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lemm.ee

I remember counting using onety-one etc. before I started kindergarten 😆 no idea how I still remember that but I do.

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tbf it probably would have been that if there wasn't a period where we counted a lot of stuff in twelves and twenties, that left special words for 11, 12, and 20, with 12 and 20 especially getting the superspecial words "dozen" and "score".

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Awesome! If I ever make an anime, it's going to be called "Elf Hunter Elf"!

(edit: I've already planned the basic story arc and 4 main characters.)

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Where does thousand suddenly come from? (Oh, just the crap cropping of the picture in connect)

One thousand Two hundred twenty two

One thousand One hundred (one)ten one

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WTF, the fact pattern of the first three doesn't match the last one.

It should be

9999:

8888:

7777:

1111:

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