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About that romance 87 …

French in France: four twenties seven

French in Switzerland: eighty seven (octante sept)




Swiss French is rather "huitante", and also that not in all regions ("quatre-vingt" in the rest), see https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ais_de_Suisse#Nombre...


French is actually not so weird if you think about what a "score" is in English. Gettysburg address literally begins with "four score and seven years ago", which equals to 87.




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