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#1 Mesden1
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I just thought of something kind of random... If 1 is pronounced "One", 2 is pronounced "Two", and 22 is pronounced "Twenty Two", 33 is pronounced "Thirty Three", Etc., then why isn't 11 pronounced "Onetee One"?

Any ideas?

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#2 kidsmelly
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You just blew my mind.

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#3 yentlequible
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It obviously wanted to be different... notice how the number 12 right after it starts with "tw", just like its predecessor: "two". And so on... It is just the rebel. Every thing has one.
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#4 funsohng
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because eleven sounds so much manlier than that feeble "onetee one"
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#5 Mesden1
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It obviously wanted to be different... notice how the number 12 right after it starts with "tw", just like its predecessor: "two". And so on... It is just the rebel. Every thing has one.yentlequible
Yeah, but "One" and "Eleven"... Nothing is similar between the two.
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#6 yentlequible
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[QUOTE="yentlequible"]It obviously wanted to be different... notice how the number 12 right after it starts with "tw", just like its predecessor: "two". And so on... It is just the rebel. Every thing has one.Undernet01
Yeah, but "One" and "Eleven"... Nothing is similar between the two.

Proves my point exactly. The numbers after 11 start with the same letters as the original one digit versions. That is why 11 is the rebel. It had to be different. It is like the brown egg in a carton of white ones.
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#7 FragStains
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You just thought of that now? I wrote a 50 page thesis on this when I was 7.
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#8 Ghost_702
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Because it's not. NEXT!
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#9 JustPlainLucas
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I feel like I've heard this one before...
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#10 Darth-Caedus
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Because onetee one sounds ******* stupid.
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#11 tsduv21
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Because onetee one sounds ******* stupid. Darth-Caedus
:lol: I agree with this man.