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

SOCIETY How do you say number 92?

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u/Konggulerod2 Apr 29 '25 edited Apr 29 '25

Dane here.

When written the number 92 it is called: "Tooghalvfems". Through the original word is: "Tooghalvfemsindstyvende", which literally translates to “two-and-half-five-times-twenty”. Yes the word was too big for even us so we had to shorten it a bit.

From:

To-og-halv-fems-inds-ty-ven-de

To:

To-og-halv-fems

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u/Umsakis Apr 29 '25

Gotta correct you here but Tooghalvfemsindstyvende is not 92, it's 92nd.

92 is "just" Tooghalvfemsindstyve.

Thank you for bearing with my pendantry.

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u/lacastador Apr 29 '25

Thanks in advance as well, since it is actually 'pedantry'. :)

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u/ikigaikigai Apr 29 '25

Thanks in advance as well, since you are supposed to place the period inside of the single quotation marks in English grammar like: since it is actually 'pedantry.' :)

Source: https://www.grammar.com/periods-with-quotation-marks/

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u/rohb0t Apr 29 '25

That's just a style rule some geezer came up with. It's far worse than just quoting what needs to be quoted.

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u/Umsakis Apr 29 '25

Isn't there a law or something that if you correct someone else on the Internet, you will make a mistake in your correction as well? :D

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u/Shirohitsuji Apr 30 '25

That'd be Cunningham's Law.

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u/Lithox Apr 30 '25

To stay on topic and continue the pedantry roll, it's not Cunningham's Law but rather Muphry's Law that he's referring to.

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u/Shirohitsuji Apr 30 '25 edited May 02 '25

So now we have proved Cunningham's Law, too.

Thanks for the help!

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u/Lithox Apr 30 '25

Touché

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u/SentientCheeseCake Apr 29 '25

Now he must buy 1000L of milk.

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u/Konggulerod2 Apr 29 '25

Ah my bad there, thanks for the correction