re: #328 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

that was the argument the British used for 12 pence to the shilling

With how easy it is to get to a store, it’s definitely a relic, but imagine, in America, how many people would freak out if you tried to sell 10 eggs. We can’t convert to the metric system.

I’m learning Spanish, and since I like numbers, I have found one thing interesting. In English, we have special names for the numbers 11 and 12 probably because of baking, whereas we essentially go 3-ten (thirteen), 4-ten, etc., afterwards. Spanish, on the other hand, has specially names for numbers up through 15, but start with a pattern afterwards: 10-and-6 (dieciséis). I’m curious why that was needed back then.