ABSTRACT
It will be seen that the first numerals up to twelve are formed unsystematically, but that there is some system in the words from 13 to 19, which are formed by composition of the numbers three, ƒour, etc., with teen, a modified form of ten-the first part of the compound being also in some cases modified; another system comprises the “tens” formed by means of -ty: here, too, some of the first parts are modified: twenty, thirty, forty, fifty. A hundred, a thousand, a million, a billion are again unsystematic; but otherwise the higher numerals are formed systematically by multiplication and addition, e.g. 2569, two thousand five hundred and sixty-nine. In additions of tens and ones the old practice as in ƒive and twenty has now generally given way to the opposite order without and: twenty-five; this is imperative when hundred precedes: 325. three hundred and twenty-five.
