Re: [tied] Re: Numerals query again

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 27015
Date: 2003-11-10

09-11-03 10:28, P&G wrote:

> I'm glad someone mentioned 17. Is there any particular reason why Romance
> numerals alter the structure at 17? (They change from digit+"ten" to
> "ten"+digit). Classical Latin altered at 18, but I don't know if Vulgar
> Latin did.

Perhaps in the troubled times of Late Antiquity the average mature
speaker of Vulgar Latin had only 17 digits.

Piotr