2006-09-29 08:21:44 · 24 answers · asked by Saurabh A 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
Its called Semantics what you just have described:
Onety One ~ Eleven
2006-09-29 09:00:46 · answer #1 · answered by spyblitz 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It might well have (or the tenty one option) if humans hadn't figured out how to count to a dozen without getting into repeat and add on mode.
By the way, a similar question pops up concerning counting in French. You wouldn't by chance have Belgian ancestry would you?
2006-09-29 15:31:39 · answer #2 · answered by St N 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, if 101 is called 'hundred and one', then why isn't 11 called 'ten and one'? You answer that and I'll tell you why 11 is not called onety one.
2006-09-29 15:32:29 · answer #3 · answered by SHANTHI 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You'd have to get someone who knows the ancient English that it comes from. Notice that 12 could be 2 LVE and 11 one or "a" LVE, so both could mean "LEFT over from 10."
2006-09-29 15:36:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cuz it sounds so dumb. Hi I am onety one, plus it rhymes with 21.
2006-09-29 15:23:21 · answer #5 · answered by jasontogs 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Or you can ask why is it not called eleventeen? Though it would require teenagers to start at 11 years of age.
Don't know, but that is why it is located in "Trivia".
2006-09-29 15:30:24 · answer #6 · answered by paisak79 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Following your theory it would be tenty one not onety one
2006-09-29 15:24:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Dunno... why isn't 111 called eleventy-one, like the Hobbits do? Then 121 could be twelvety-one... 131 could be thirteenty-one... oh wait... 111 would have to be onety-one and one... or onety-onety-one... this is kinda fun! Ten. onety-one, onety-two, onety-three, onety-four, onety-five...
2006-09-29 15:30:41 · answer #8 · answered by Bitsie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just speculation here but I would imagine it something to do with were the numbers originated and the origional language used to write them (latin?)
2006-09-29 15:55:39 · answer #9 · answered by jazzyrhythms 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Better yet, oneteen, twoteen threeteen, fourteen (woops, that's already in existence) fiveteen sixteen, seventeen eighteen nineteen twenteen.
This is not working, oh,well.
2006-09-29 15:46:48 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋