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From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
Subject: Re: Numbering system
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In article <3rqub4$8gu@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> peabody@wam.umd.edu (Corey Alton Reid) writes:
 > Fr.			Bel.
 > soixante		soixante
 > soixante-dix		septante (?)
 > quatre-vingts		otante
 > quatre-vingts-dix	novante

In Belgium: septante, quatre-vingts, nonnante.  In the south of France:
soixante-dix, ottante, ottante-dix.
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