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  • Nederlands regel :-)

    Something that's always confused me is that here we don't pronounce numbers from left to right. So instead of hundred ninety six (100-90-6) we say honderd zes-en-negentig (100-6-90)

    • English used to be that way as well:

      Sing a song of sixpence

      A pocket full of rye

      Four and twenty blackbirds

      Baked in a pie.

      In these lyrics "four and twenty" means 24

  • I used to work in England as an export clerk for a Dutch transport company. This is the first phrase my Dutch colleges taught me.

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