2007-07-08 22:18:24 · 11 answers · asked by DAVE 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
haha you can't be serious....
2007-07-08 22:22:03 · answer #1 · answered by Wil :P 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the same reason why the number 12 is not pronounced onety- two
2007-07-08 22:21:33 · answer #2 · answered by I love Lucy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
same reason that 12 is not pronounced onety two
Eleven is easy to say
onety one is not
Humans have a lazy mouth when it comes to language and if we can find a way to say it easier, we'll do it.
Case in point
Photograph sounds like Fotograf
Photographer sounds like Fotagrafer
Or "How do you do" We don't say it that way, we say, "how daya do"
Language is interesting
Peace
Jim
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Peace
Jim
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2007-07-08 22:38:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Language is conservative; eleven and twelve are likely remnants of a previously used base 12 numeral system, as in French quatre-vingt-dis for 90 - lit. four-twenty (and) ten - is of an old base 20 system.
2007-07-09 04:26:35 · answer #4 · answered by mand 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yep 11 onety one, ten is onety u my bunty, need anything more!!!
2007-07-08 22:54:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because a clock has twelve numbers.
2007-07-08 22:25:06 · answer #6 · answered by Keith 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have too much time on your hands don't you1
2007-07-08 23:17:00 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why not start the trend?
2007-07-08 22:38:37 · answer #8 · answered by scruffycat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who's to say it isn't?
2007-07-08 22:21:02 · answer #9 · answered by Nitz Frugent 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
life's like that..
2007-07-08 22:21:39 · answer #10 · answered by logic 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hilarious i dont know!
2007-07-08 22:37:30 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋