The Queen's English

[Rogerm]

The French actually begin their numerical craziness with the number seventy, or "soixante-dix"(sixty plus ten). The French word for "eighty", "quatre-vingt," is indeed the equivalent of "four score."(four times twenty) And, "ninety" comes out to "quatre-vingt-dix" or "four score and ten." However, not all French-speaking people count so "illogically." For the number 70, the French-speaking Belgians say "septant". And, for 90, the French-speaking Swiss say "nonante."