Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 10:52:40 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> To: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> Cc: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: French, Flemish and English (was: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha clock.c) Message-ID: <20020522105240.B46377@lpt.ens.fr> In-Reply-To: <p05111723b910fac1be02@[10.0.1.4]>; from brad.knowles@skynet.be on Wed, May 22, 2002 at 09:40:20AM %2B0200 References: <p05111722b90de01cc974@[10.9.8.215]> <20020520195703.A79046@dragon.nuxi.com> <p05111701b90fb2744154@[10.9.8.215]> <20020521103710.C71209@lpt.ens.fr> <p05111703b90fc048bd8f@[10.0.1.4]> <20020521133026.L71209@lpt.ens.fr> <p05111705b90fe1afee46@[10.0.1.4]> <20020522112854.A26107@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020522064417.GA893@lpt.ens.fr> <p05111723b910fac1be02@[10.0.1.4]>
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Brad Knowles said on May 22, 2002 at 09:40:20: > At 8:44 AM +0200 2002/05/22, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > Whereas in Belgium, we have septante, quatre-vingts, and nonante. > > They fixed seventy and ninety, but for whatever bizarre reason, > they left eighty alone. The version I heard (from some French chap) was that the Belgians say "huitante" and the Swiss say "octante", or perhaps the other way around. But I bow to your knowledge :) - Rahul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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