http://kidamnesiac.okcomputer.org/2009/04/20/simon-goes-to-eleventeen/ Fast times and wild living with (the former) Baby Whozit... Thu, 18 Feb 2016 12:02:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.4 http://kidamnesiac.okcomputer.org/2009/04/20/simon-goes-to-eleventeen/comment-page-1/#comment-193 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:53:29 +0000 http://kidamnesiac.okcomputer.org/?p=975#comment-193 In French, seventy is “soixante-dix” and ninety is “quatre-vingt dix”–or, in English, sixty-ten and eight-ten. 81 is “quatre-vingt onze” or eighty-eleven, and so forth. So this is a numerical pattern, albeit not an English one. You didn’t know Simon spoke French, did you? Bright boy.

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