Re: Why are "the teens" special ?

Thank you for your replies.

And thank you, Lars, I had often wondered why in Russian the numbers 2
through 4 were treated differently from other numbers I considered to
be similarly plural from an English perspective. I never thought of
the thumb vs. 4 long fingers explanation!

- Elaine

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "squilluncus" <grvs@...> wrote:
> ...
> Also Russian gen plur from five but two to four with
> gen sing.
> There seems to have been two systems originally:
> one only counting the long fingers, one also including
> the thumb.
> ...
> Lars
>