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minus-squareSwedneck@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-211 months agotbf 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”.
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”.