Why isn't 11 called onenety one?

Question

why is it eleven...not onenety one just like twenty one, thirty one, forty one...?

do u guys ever think about stuff like that?
The english language has so many mistakes and unexplained answer...

Answer 1

111 should be "eleventy one"

or maybe by your logic it should be "onenetyety one"

Answer 2

Why is a chair called chair and not table? Because those who invented the English language and as it developed, 11 became eleven and not onenety one. So that's why!

Answer 3

First of all "teen" is the correct English ending for 1X type numbers.
four-teen, fifteen, etc etc.
As for eleven and twelve -- they retained their proto-Germanic names(*ainlif and *twalif respectively “one left” and “two left”) since English used to have a based 12 counting system, not 10 based. This is the same reason we use 12 based clocks.

Answer 4

HQ3 is right.....11 is in the teen series. So, 11 should be oneteen, 12, twoteen or something like that......keeping with the teen logic and someone mentioned 111....that would make 111 be called "ten oneteens one" instead of one hundred eleven. :-)

Answer 5

Not "onenety one", "onety one". And it's because people came up with the "teens" series. For example, why is 21 "twenty-one", not "twoty-one"? Same answer, the English language is that way.

Answer 6

I have no idea, but everything else you want to know about the number eleven is listed here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/11_%28number%29

Answer 7

for the same reason 12 isnt called onenety two.

Answer 8

Good question - It would make sense wouldn't it? It's like why are Moose and Moose singular and plural?...

Answer 9

You just made me laugh so hard I almost fell out of my chair. Oh, and no I don't know why.

Answer 10

It's hard to pronounce. But yeah, English can be stupid.

Answer 11

That is the craziest thing I have heard today.