alleryWhich nursery rhyme line shows the older English unit-before-tens pattern?
AFour and twenty blackbirds
BTwinkle twinkle little star
CHumpty Dumpty sat on a wall
DBaa baa black sheep
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. Four and twenty blackbirds
1. The unit-before-tens order was once common in English.
2. Sing a Song of Sixpence says four and twenty blackbirds.
3. The other rhymes carry no such number pattern.
_Source: Wikipedia, Ethnomathematics, section German_
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