Why isn't the number 11 pronounced onety one?
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Well...why don't you find out and tell me next time we come across each other?\n\nWell...anyway, none of the others are pronunced like that too.\n\n22 - twoteetwo? lol\n\n33 - threeteethree? even more hilarious\n\nonly 44 is like that - and 66, 77, 88, 99\n\n55 - fivetyfive? nah\n\nThe English Language has no permanent rule, since it takes the roots of too many other languages. Nothing makes sense.
570692
Most pressing issue is to call nine one one.  Secondary issue is to try "check spelling".
479876
Eleven, not counting the space. "the alphabet"
456229
because "nine" is no in German. So, it isn't confusing. Also, the "official" language of pilots (worldwide) is English. Every control tower in the world speaks English.
26758
Why would it be 11, 10, 12?  It's 0, 1, 2, not 1, 0, 2.\n\nThe second digit (the 1 in 10) is the tens place, and the first digit (the 0 in 10) is the ones place, so after 9 you have no more digits to put a higher number in the ones place, so you put a 1 in the tens place and a 0 in the ones place and get 10.  To add one to that you put a 1 in the ones place and get 11.  Thus 11 is one more than 10 so it comes after it when you arrange the numbers from smallest to largest (which is essentially what you're doing when you're counting).
171933
you are all crazy. 1+1= elevendy-six.
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Numbers 1 - 9 are spelled out, once you get to10 and above, you can just use the numerals. Here's a web site to prove my point...\n\nhttp://www.grammarbook.com/numbers/numbers.asp
878948
Well, why is the number 18 in Latin pronounced duodeviginti (2 down from 20), instead of octodecim (following the pattern of the numbers from 11-17)? Same goes for Spanish, but with different wording.\n\nAlso, then why in Chinese do we not say one ten (and) three for 13 instead of ten (and) three, but we say one hundred one ten three for 113? (translated for your benefit)\n\nThere's just something in the etymology of the numbers that dictate it that way. (The others have the explanations of the specific etymology of the number 11)
440771
if we are talking mathematics then it is 2\nif we like to manipulate with words then it is 11\nif we are talking about a man and a woman then 1+1=1 (or maybe more in case of twins)
681230
U are an idiot.\nOMG OMG OMG, it's 11 letters. Or more accurately, it's misfiled spam.\n\nJust as the white supremists and neonazis use "88" as code for "hh", an abbreviation of "heil hitler", so too does "11" refer to "aa", an abbreviation of "Alcoholics Anonymous"
46969
probably deals with the origin of the word. most of the english language is based off of other languages. look eleven up on an online dictionary and it will show the origin of the word.
112490
Because the numbers after the decimal (to the right of) represent less than one. One times a number is that number. Less than one times a number is only a fraction of that number.\n\nMake sense?
580455
Well duh! If 11 can be used as an ace (1) then the numbers you are referring to are cards. Therefore we change the 11 to an ace (1). \n\n1+8+8= 17.
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111221, 312211, 13112221, 1113213211, ...\nOR\n1231, 131221, 132231, 232221, 134211, ...\nOR\n3112, 211213, 312213, 212223, 114213, ...\n\nEach is based on the digit makeup of the previous term, but I need one more term in the sequence to be sure of the rule.
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I know of one children's method book using Chisenbop finger math that proposes onedy-one thru onedy-nine for children learning the numbers.  There are fewer exceptions to the overall pattern that way, but realisticly, one must learn the exceptions eventually as all childs do as they learn the language.
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its impossible because there needs to be either one less sign or one more number look:\n\nin a the order:\n2 * 4 - 6 + 8 /\n              ^there is an extra sign!!
550346
eleventy-seven-gazillion-batrillion\n\nthat should have been batrillion