>> 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".

No! In Old English we did say numbers that way round, but along the way 
it evolved into the current way round. Note that German (which comes 
from the same roots) still has the numbers that way round.

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