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Date:
Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:00:12 -0400
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Re: Brahms
From:
Walter Meyer <[log in to unmask]>
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Stephen E. Bacher wrote:

>"Yoel L. Arbeitman" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>...("...December Eighteen Hundred Eighty Nine. House of Mr. Fellinger,
>>with me is Doctor Brahms, Johannes Brahms.")
>
>Wouldn't "Achtzehnhundertachtundneunzig" be 1898, not 1889?

Yes.  Germans name their non-teen two-digit numbers starting w/ the unit,
viz.: "eight and ninety", not "ninety-[and] eight".

Walter Meyer

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