> The story about this as I remember it is that most of GB used to say 4
> and fifty (and some still do) but that some king or queen decided that
> fifty four better fitted what was written.

Must have been nice to just be able to make changes like that. Today it 
would have taken 4 years for a committee to produce a report making a 
recommendation, then another 2 years for parliament to debate a spelling 
mistake on page 7, another 2 years to rewrite the report, then more 
debating and finally the government decides actually we won't bother.

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