2007-09-25 06:31:07 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
Why not "oneteen"?
2007-09-25 06:37:21 · answer #1 · answered by big_mustache 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
same reason 12 isn't onety two, 13 isn't onety three.. ect... also that would make it to where there was no more teens it would be 14, onety four.. Yay I became an adult I am officially onety eight..
2007-09-25 06:40:29 · answer #2 · answered by SLIFOX 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
onety one sounds too much like twenty one. They needed a way to distinguish the two.
2007-09-25 06:50:08 · answer #3 · answered by Armless Joe, Bipedal Foe 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hey i thought of something similar the other day! (after I used magic smoking lamp)
why isnt 20 "two-ty" 30 is "three-ty" and 50 prenounced "Five-ty"then sixty seventy eighty and ninety would make sence...(lol!) oh ya and fourty would make sense too!
did I explain that well enough? every number you could just add "ty" at the end.
2007-09-25 07:00:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Well, try pronouncing it five times fast! It just dosnt make any scence.
2007-09-25 06:35:49 · answer #5 · answered by fallenembers08 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Same reason 111 isn't eleventyone.
2007-09-25 06:34:24 · answer #6 · answered by chris n 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Maybe because it comes from the Old German word "ainlif" meaning "one left."
2007-09-25 06:35:18 · answer #7 · answered by CCBB 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
because eleven sounds so much better.
2007-09-25 06:38:52 · answer #8 · answered by teenster 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋