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Could Breton be responsible for the way the french say quatre-vingt?

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Could Breton be responsible for the way the french say quatre-vingt?

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Yes. As you may know, the French counting system has its own share of weirdness: they say sixty-eleven for 71, four-twenty for 80 and four-twenty-seventeen for 97. All this comes from Breton which does this in an even more extreme fashion: 18: triwec’h litterally three-six.

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