Twelfty vs Teenty - What's the difference?
twelfty | teenty | Antonyms |
(nonstandard) One hundred twenty; 120.
* {{quote-book
, title=Arithmetic, Oral and Written
, author=Thomas H. Palmer
, page=36
, year=1854
, passage=Thirty-six from a hundred and twenty-nine? [twelvety -nine.]}}
* {{quote-book
, title=Report and Proceedings of the Convention
, page=1
, author=International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union
, year=1922
, passage=The twelfty-six [126] weeks' strike taught us the value of being organized}}
One hundred (100), especially a short hundred when considering long hundreds.
* {{cite web
, last =Krieger
, first =Wendy
, url =http://www.geocities.com/os2fan2/gloss/pttwelfty.html
, title =Twelfty for Decimal-Users
, accessdate =2008-09-15}}
Twelfty is an antonym of teenty.
As numerals the difference between twelfty and teenty
is that twelfty is (nonstandard) one hundred twenty; 120 while teenty is one hundred (100), especially a short hundred when considering long hundreds.twelfty
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Alternative forms
* twelvetyNumeral
(head)teenty
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(head)- Base 120 is the largest of the historically attested bases There are references to a long or twelftywise count vs a short or teenty -wise count in all of the early Germanic writings.