In einer eMail vom 17.03.01 19:58:29 (MEZ) Mitteleuropäische Zeit schreibt [email protected]: << Ein Und Viersig [One and Forty - 1841] >> that's the way we count in Germany - you say forty-one = vierzig-eins. We say ein und vierzig = one and forty. but we share the eighteenhundred = achtzehnhundert. Also in non-recent time they wrote eins acht hundert (ein eight hundred). Sometimes you may read 5. 9bris - that is 5. Novembris = 5th of November leading me to think about our months' names. That goes back to the time when the year ended in March and started in April or something like that. Roland

I will be interested to see if that word really was achts for eight - it looked really strange to me. Another look tells me that November was spelled quite differently, not like I had it. Anne ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2001 3:20 PM Subject: Re: [GEIGER] GEIGER Document - 1841 In einer eMail vom 17.03.01 19:58:29 (MEZ) Mitteleuropäische Zeit schreibt [email protected]: << Ein Und Viersig [One and Forty - 1841] >> that's the way we count in Germany - you say forty-one = vierzig-eins. We say ein und vierzig = one and forty. but we share the eighteenhundred = achtzehnhundert. Also in non-recent time they wrote eins acht hundert (ein eight hundred). Sometimes you may read 5. 9bris - that is 5. Novembris = 5th of November leading me to think about our months' names. That goes back to the time when the year ended in March and started in April or something like that. Roland