On 24/07/2013 06:10 AM, Stephen wrote:
> 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.

Mathematicians still refer to a polynomial "of order 2" rather than just 
saying "a second order polynomial". What can I say? Mathematics was 
invented a really, *really* long time ago...

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