[Ads-l] eleventeen

[Jonathan Lighter]

'A very great many.'

OED has an isolated ex. from "a1700" meaning "twenty-one."

1789 _Salem [Mass.] Mercury_ (Jan. 27) 2 [Newspapers.com]: I am going to
tell you what my old grandmother told me _eleventeen_ years ago.

Etc., etc.

And etc.

2023  https://writemakesmight.net/to-infinity-and-beyond-part-i-of-ii/
<https://writemakesmight.net/to-infinity-and-beyond-part-i-of-ii/>  (Dec.
23): Dave didn’t win a Nobel Prize in chemistry, become a billionaire, or
publish 27 novels in eleventeen languages.

JL
-- 
"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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