Timeline for German way of saying numbers found in Dickens

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Nov 11, 2013 at 1:29	comment	added	GEdgar		Presumably to find one and twenty dominating things, you would have to go back further than 1800.
Nov 10, 2013 at 22:15	comment	added	J.R.		As the O.P. said, though, that doesn't really answer the core question. Looking through some of the one and twenty hits: in measures twenty-one and twenty-two…; seventy-one and twenty-two is ninety-three; treatises six, eight, twelve, twenty-one and twenty-three; scores of between twenty-one and twenty-six baskets were often used; the cubit usually becomes twenty-four inches in width, although twenty-one and twenty-seven inch sizes do appear – and those are just on the first two pages. They are especially misleading hits, because those numbers are actually in the other format.
Nov 10, 2013 at 22:13	comment	added	martina.physics		Right, so apart from the (pretty recent) intersection of the curves, no interesting information seem to emerge. I'd love to know the reason of the switch.
Nov 10, 2013 at 22:09	history	answered	GEdgar	CC BY-SA 3.0