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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • On a similar note: In German, “seven hundred fifty three” would be said as “seven hundred three and fifty”.

    At least it’s consistent - starting at “thirteen” , which is “three ten”, up to ninety nine, which is “nine and ninety”, the multiples of ten come last.

    It is pretty annoying, though, when a number like 123’456’789 is spoken as 132-465-798, though.

    Apparently, it’s because in old Germanic, the numbers were spoken “backwards” (one hundred twenty three being spoken as “three and twenty and hundred”), and we only partially reversed that.