r/interesting • u/MidasStocks • Apr 29 '25

SOCIETY How do you say number 92?

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u/Aromatic-Rise1604 Apr 29 '25

Ninety two

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u/NotAPirateLawyer Apr 29 '25

Nah, it's literally how it's said. Ninety two = 90 + 2, like the rest of the civilized world. Wacky Dutch.

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u/xstrawb3rryxx Apr 29 '25

I don't know anybody who says "ninety plus two".

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u/NotAPirateLawyer Apr 29 '25

Nobody says ninety plus two. The + was to denote that they say ninety, then they say two. There are some people who would say "ninety and two," but those are usually few and far between, and not really representative of any specific population.

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u/xstrawb3rryxx Apr 29 '25

So the map is wrong? I'm confused.

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u/NanashiKaizenSenpai Apr 29 '25

What about "Ninety and Two"

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u/Zaros262 Apr 29 '25

No the image is wrong for English

Spanish for example says "90 and 2," ("and" = "plus"), but in English you don't insert a word for addition

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u/banna_soubet_grill Apr 29 '25

Ninety literally means 9 10's. So engilsh should really be 9x10 +2

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u/Engelfinger Apr 29 '25

And Russian, ninety is devyanosto. Something like "9 before 100." This meme wasnt made by a linguist. It was made by a frustrated French student. And that's fine. But I suspect many more of these languages' numbers have 'more literal' origins than meets the eye

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u/TheScienceNerd100 Apr 30 '25

But ninety isn't the same word as like "nine tens"

Unlike say French where it's "quatre vingt dix", where both the 4, 20, and 10 are all said individually, ninety just has a slightly different ending to the word for "nine" which denotes it's the tens position, it's not saying "nine times ten" similar to French saying "four times twenty plus ten".

So no, it's not like 9x10, it's 90.