Stephen E. Bacher wrote:

>"Yoel L. Arbeitman" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>>...("...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