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FaderTrader · May 20, 2006

Why isn't 11 called, "Onety One"...

Sorry, I'm curious.

cnms2 · May 20, 2006

google it ...
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=eleven

cnms2 · May 20, 2006

also ...

WORD HISTORY: The decimal system of counting is well established in the English names for numbers. Both the suffix âteen (as in fourteen) and the suffix âty (as in forty) are related to the word ten. But what about the anomalous eleven and twelve? Why do we not say oneteen, twoteen along the same pattern as thirteen, fourteen, fifteen? Eleven in Old English is endleofan, and related forms in the various Germanic languages point back to an original Germanic *ainlif, âeleven.â *Ainlif is composed of *ainâ, âone,â the same as our one, and the suffix *âlif from the Germanic root *libâ, âto adhere, remain, remain left over.â Thus, eleven is literally âone-leftâ (over, that is, past ten), and twelve is âtwo-leftâ (over past ten).
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