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[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Who out here is calling ninety two as two ninety?

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Look at the map, dude. German, Dutch, Slovenian, sometimes Norwegian (and Czech). Usually adding “and” between the two numbers.

[–] Mananasi@feddit.nl 16 points 1 year ago

In Dutch it's tweeënnegentig. Which is three words connected: twee en negentig. Or literally translated: two and ninety.

[–] Anders@lemdro.id 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

In Norwegian, the correct way to say it is ninety two, but in daily speech, it's interchangeable with two-and-ninety.

[–] stepanzak@iusearchlinux.fyi 3 points 1 year ago

Same in Czech, but the two-and-ninety is not much used.

[–] VO0RHAMER@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I thing english also used to do this right? Saying 2 and 90 surely sounds old timey