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From: alan@idec.stc.co.uk (Alan Spreadbury)
Newsgroups: sci.lang
Subject: French variants
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Date: Fri, 7-Nov-86 08:07:23 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  7 08:07:23 1986
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Can any of our Belgian, Swiss or Canadian friends enlighten me
(and the rest of the net) as to what the variants in the French
names of the numbers seventy, eighty and ninety are, and where
they are used?  I know that the French-as-spoken-in-France names
are soixante-dix, quatre-vingts and quatre-vingt-dix, and that
the French-as-spoken-in-Belgium name for seventy is septante.

I remember having heard that the names octante and/or huitante,
and nonante and/or neuvante (sp?) were in use somewhere in the
French-speaking world, but I have no idea how much truth there
is in this.

Alan Spreadbury.