The posts on this forum might answer your question Rainer:
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/3903/19th-century-english-texts-occasionally-use-germanic-style-number-words-such-as
Best,
Matthew
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
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