Chris Jacobs scripsit: > So if people pronounce it as > > twenty-one > esriem we achad > > then they probably indeed write the digit 2 first.
Indeed, but the difficulty is that various Arabic colloquials don't agree on the order of pronouncing numbers -- and modern standard Arabic uses the least-significant-digit first style: one and twenty and three hundred and .... -- John Cowan www.reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lope de Vega: "It wonders me I can speak at all. Some caitiff rogue did rudely yerk me on the knob, wherefrom my wits still wander." An Englishman: "Ay, a filchman to the nab betimes 'll leave a man crank for a spell." --Harry Turtledove, Ruled Britannia
