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From: campbell@maynard.UUCP (Larry Campbell)
Newsgroups: sci.lang
Subject: Re: French variants
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Date: Sun, 9-Nov-86 11:08:05 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov  9 11:08:05 1986
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In article <742@argon.idec.stc.co.uk> alan@idec.stc.co.uk (Alan Spreadbury) writes:
>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.

They are used in Switzerland.
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