Onety-one, onety-two ...
Several of my posts have been about goofy words and wondering how we came up with them. How about our numbers? Why isn't 11 pronounced onety-one, 12 onety-two, and so on?
Maybe it's because we needed to have a special term for the teen years that can be so troubling. It's easier to say he is behaving like a typical teenager instead of like a typical onety-three through onety-nine year old. So why couldn't 11 be oneteen and 12 be twoteen? I guess these two numbers eleven and twelve are just meant to be special with their own different pronunciations.
Maybe it's because we needed to have a special term for the teen years that can be so troubling. It's easier to say he is behaving like a typical teenager instead of like a typical onety-three through onety-nine year old. So why couldn't 11 be oneteen and 12 be twoteen? I guess these two numbers eleven and twelve are just meant to be special with their own different pronunciations.
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