how to pronounce numbers

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(06-23-2018 03:12 PM)peacecalc Wrote:  The inversion in speaking the group of ten and unit position is always for millions of generations a reason for misunderstanding. That is one of Murphy's law in Germany: Why making it easy, when there is a more cömplicated way doing it.
(Sorry for my bad English, I'm sure there exist a similar saw in your language).

It used to be like that in English too. Remember the nursery rhyme "Sing a Song of Sixpence", which includes the words "Four and Twenty Blackbirds Baked in a Pie". It still is that way in another language very close to German: Dutch. 132 would be "honderd twee en dertig."

The most confusing thing for non German-speakers regarding numbers is when telling the time at half past the hour.

"Zwei Uhr" is 2 o'clock. "Halb Zwei" is half past one