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jel123



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PostPosted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 4:07 pm Reply with quote
Not sure if this has been noticed before but the eleventh of the month is improperly displayed as 11st (eleventy first? Wink ).
It's on the front page today as well as as other pages past and present.
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Dan42
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 8:28 pm Reply with quote
doh!

1st
11th
21st
31st

darn english language!
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dormcat
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 8:57 pm Reply with quote
Just learned something new:

Wikipedia wrote:
Germanic languages have special words for 11 and 12, such as eleven and twelve in English, which are often misinterpreted as vestiges of a duodecimal system. However, they are considered to come from Proto-Germanic *ainlif and *twalif (respectively one left and two left), both of which were decimal. Admittedly, the survival of such apparently unique terms may be connected with duodecimal tendencies, but their origin is not duodecimal.

So the inventor of eleven and twelve in English did NOT have twelve fingers (which's gene is dominant over the gene of ten fingers) as I suspected. Razz
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jel123



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PostPosted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 10:53 pm Reply with quote
Ouch! Reading that made my brain hurt Smile

But good point; 12 and 13 also don't match the algorithm.
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