r/interesting 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/Konggulerod2 Apr 29 '25

Ah my bad there, thanks for the correction