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Re: Even *MORE* Scandinavia...

Pradera
SubjectRe: Even *MORE* Scandinavian linguistics; was: Republicanism still an offence in England?
FromPradera
Date2002-05-17 19:13 (2002-05-17 19:13)
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U?ytkownik Henriette Frans <ch.frans@chello.nl>w wiadomooci do grup dyskusyjnych napisa?:3CE53920.516B306D@chello.nl...

Henriette Frans
chris cunningham wrote:

chris cunningham
oh, the arabs also put the ones before the tens, btw, as in five and

twenty

for 25, or one hundred, five and twenty, for 125

Henriette Frans
Strange, that the Dutch and the Germans have that in common with the

Arabs,

whereas none of the other languages we discussed have that illogical

habit.

Maybe they learned it from the Thirteenth Warrior ;)

Henriette

BTW: I learned today that carrots are orange because the Dutch made them so. Earlier they were purple...are you guys behind _everything_ ??

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