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[–] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be fair, it is kinda dumb that four has a U, but forty doesn't.

[–] nyctre@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, but then we'd have to say onety, twoty, threety and fivety as well. Just take it as its own word rather than four+ty and it'll make more sense, I think.

[–] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Okay but forty and fourty are pronunced the same way. And I'm sure fivety wouldn't sound funny if thats how we started off.

Edit: and seventy, eighty, ninety all use their original number spelling.

[–] reev@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

I've always been a proponent of onety-two.