Nougat@fedia.io to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 3 days agoThe English word "four" has 4 letters. Are there any other numbers where the English name for them has that many letters?message-squaremessage-square48fedilinkarrow-up179arrow-down112file-text
arrow-up167arrow-down1message-squareThe English word "four" has 4 letters. Are there any other numbers where the English name for them has that many letters?Nougat@fedia.io to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 3 days agomessage-square48fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarefrank@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·2 days ago二 (pronounced and romanized to “ni”) is 2 in Japanese and has two letters kinda Same with 三(San)
minus-squareAdmetus@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 days agoWe getcha but that’s romaji which is a transliteration of the syllable sounds.
minus-squarefrank@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-22 days agoYeah, but saying 一 has one Kanji and is One would be the only candidate and that’s a little boring :p
二 (pronounced and romanized to “ni”) is 2 in Japanese and has two letters kinda
Same with 三(San)
We getcha but that’s romaji which is a transliteration of the syllable sounds.
Yeah, but saying 一 has one Kanji and is One would be the only candidate and that’s a little boring :p