Acquainted with vigesimal systems of counting, and with due apologies to French for thinking their way was over-complicated for ways of enumerating values above sixty-nine in most Francophone areas, shifting from decimal to base-twenty—for example: 
quatre-vingts for eighty or soixante-quinze (sixteen-fifteen) for seventy-five—we were however unaware of the rules and conventions for Danish numeral. Like German, for anything above twenty, with 21 pronounced as enogtyve one-and-twenty, and similar to French change to vigesimal for values above fifty with halvtreds(indstyve) literally a half-third or two and one-half (times twenty), 70 being halvfjerds, half-fourth or 3½ × 20, firs for 80, a shortened form of four-twenties, and the number 99 pronounced as nioghalvfems, nine and half-fifth or 4½ × 20.
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one year ago: knowing things is hard (with synchronopticรฆ), a looming trade war plus a ceasefire deal in Gaza
twelve years ago: woolly pigs plus economic recovery in Iceland
thirteen years ago: Wikitravel plus the history of PEZ
fourteen years ago: national firewalls
fifteen years ago: licensing likenesses
sixteen years ago: Martian terrain
seventeen years ago: yellow journalism
