Nougat@fedia.io to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 3 days agoThe English word "four" has 4 letters. Are there any other numbers where the English name for them has that many letters?message-squaremessage-square51fedilinkarrow-up178arrow-down112file-text
arrow-up166arrow-down1message-squareThe English word "four" has 4 letters. Are there any other numbers where the English name for them has that many letters?Nougat@fedia.io to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 3 days agomessage-square51fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareSatyrSack@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34·edit-22 days agoI was able to come up with a list of similar scenarios for various languages using a simple formula in LibreOffice Calc: =LEN(A2)=ROW(A2)-1 (row 1 being a header row) Language Word Digit Danish To 2 Danish Tre 3 Danish Fire 4 Dutch Vier 4 English Four 4 Finnish Viisi 5 French N/A N/A German Vier 4 Indonesian N/A N/A Italian Tre 3 Norwegian To 2 Norwegian Tre 3 Norwegian Fire 4 Polish N/A N/A Portuguese Cinco 5 Spanish Cinco 5 Swedish Tre 3 Swedish Fyra 4 Turkish Dört 4
minus-squareℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 days agoIn Hungarian, it’s “négy”, but it’s actually only three letters, n, é and gy.
minus-squarefranklinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·2 days ago二 (pronounced and romanized to “ni”) is 2 in Japanese and has two letters kinda Same with 三(San)
minus-squareAdmetuslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 days agoWe getcha but that’s romaji which is a transliteration of the syllable sounds.
minus-squarefranklinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-22 days agoYeah, but saying 一 has one Kanji and is One would be the only candidate and that’s a little boring :p
I was able to come up with a list of similar scenarios for various languages using a simple formula in LibreOffice Calc:
=LEN(A2)=ROW(A2)-1(row 1 being a header row)In Hungarian, it’s “négy”, but it’s actually only three letters, n, é and gy.
二 (pronounced and romanized to “ni”) is 2 in Japanese and has two letters kinda
Same with 三(San)
We getcha but that’s romaji which is a transliteration of the syllable sounds.
Yeah, but saying 一 has one Kanji and is One would be the only candidate and that’s a little boring :p
This is a clever solution