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   From: coryvreckan@NO_SPAM.verizon.net   
      
   Westprog wrote:   
   > "Féachadóir"  wrote in message   
   > news:3q0pk2ldar7f021t5bngn5nhe0p3adhvh8@4ax.com...   
   >   
   >>Scríobh Ciaran :   
   >>   
   >>>[My note on his last point: some evidence has been uncovered by Gaelic   
   >>>scholars of a few Euskadi (Basque) place names in Alba and the western   
   >>>Celtic Isles and Basques base their counting system on scores (twenties   
   >>>- hogei in Eusakdi and ugain in Cymraeg) just like the Celtic languages   
   >>>do, especially Gaelic]   
   >>   
   >>And scores of others... :)   
   >   
   >   
   > Maybe even quatre-vingt of them. I'd be willing to bet a few shillings on   
   > that.   
   >   
   > Is there any evidence that counting in twenties goes along with not being   
   > able to afford shoes?   
   >   
   > --   
   >   
   > J/   
   >   
   > SOTW: "The Ballad Of Ira Heyes" - Johnny Cash   
   >   
   >   
      
   The ancient Americans also used 20.   
      
   --   
   "For the stronger we our houses do build,   
   The less chance we have of being killed." - William Topaz McGonagall   
      
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