forty-eleven

[Benjamin Barrett]

Probably unrelated to these memories, but there are eleventy-one (111)
and tweens in Tokien's Fellowship of the Ring. BB

Wilson Gray wrote:
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> I know what you mean, Scot. I feel the same way about
> "eleventy-eleven." Have I really heard this? Or did I read it
> somewhere? Or did I unconsciously conjure it up, inspired by the
> subject of the thread?
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> -Wilson
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> On 1/18/07, Scot LaFaive <spiderrmonkey at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>> Speaking of eleven, has anyone ever heard eleventeen as a variant? I could
>> swear that I remember hearing this when I was around that age (mid-1980's),
>> though I can't be sure I wasn't just creating it myself, or that my memory
>> is misfiring.
>> Scot
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