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Why isn't 11 pronounced "onety-one"?

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edd360
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Because it isn't spelled that way so pronouncing it that way would be silly unless you changed the word completely.
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Poem boy
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A new low, even by TSR standards.
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W.H.T
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A more important question:




































































why isn't DVD prononuced doovde? :dontknow:
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Picnic1
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Original post by danny111
20 = twenty
21= twenty one = 20 1

10 = ten
11 = onety-one?!??!?!

it should be ten one using your logic for the other numbers.


You are right - the question should be 'Why isn't 11 pronounced "ten one"?
(just as 21 is pronounced twenty one, comprising what its first digit means in context - 20 - and what its second digit means - 1).

It's similar to when everyone said 'nineteen ninety nine' for the year '1999' but didn't say 'twenty zero zero' for '2000'.

Until I read your post I thought in error for some reason that the question should have been 'Why isn't 11 pronounced "tenty-one"?

But then I realised that there is no precedent for using the term 'tenty'. And it also sounds like Gandalf looking for his camping companion: 'I seek the tenty one.'

I think so anyway. I didn't read The Lord of the rings.
(edited 13 years ago)
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Mm_Minty
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This might answer a few things....
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vixen23
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Same reason it isn't oneteen haha
The same reason 12 isn't pronounced 'onety-two'
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