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29 Jul 2024 00:35:55 EDT (-0400)
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From: Stephen
Date: 24 Jul 2013 01:10:25
Message: <51ef61c1$1@news.povray.org>
On 24/07/2013 12:32 AM, nemesis wrote:
> don't you British spell 32 as two and thirty?  at least, it is that way in
> Victorian literature

I think that is just for literary effect, as in "Four and twenty 
blackbirds, baked in a pie". The language does move on, for instance we 
don't call a week a sevennight any more. But there are still parts of 
the country that use thee and thou.

-- 
Regards
     Stephen


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