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		mariotacke on March 16, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: On clock faces, 4 is Expressed as IIII, not IV Interesting. I wonder if this is related to how Germans count/pronounce numbers. 21 in your example is "einundzwanzig" in German (or "ein-und-zwanzig", "one-and-twenty")

zeven7 on March 16, 2024 [–]

I think in this case it’s because Hebrew is read right to left, so unrelated.

dhosek on March 16, 2024 | [–]

Yep. The reversed order is also something that you see in archaic English, for example the nursery rhyme, “four and twenty blackbirds”

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