I forgot to mention that the old-fashioned way was still used by Collins, Dickens and even by Conan Doyle after 1880. I have no idea if that was old fashioned at their time, though.
Rainer On 28.01.2018 11:11, Rainer wrote:
Dear lute-netters, some of you certainly know (have) Peter Holman's book. I always thought that this pronunciation of numbers (as still used in German) was only used in the 17th century and before and changed a long time ago. Does anybody know when this changed (from four and twenty to twenty-four)? Rainer To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
