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Case in point, here in Quebec I once said, “je me suis mariee en mil neuf cents nonante” and I got classified as “not French speaking.”
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Case in point, here in Quebec I once said, “je me suis mariee en mil neuf cents nonante” and I got classified as “not French speaking.”
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There is some regional variation in Switzerland and Belgium using octante and nonante for quatre-vingt and quatre-vingt-dix for 80 and 90.
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Some people use “septante”, “octante” and “nonante” for 60, 70 and 80, but are mostly Swiss or Belgian as far as I know.
growing pains 2006
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In Belgium this is how to write 93 "nonante-trois"
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One notable difference is the use of the words septante (70) and nonante (90) in Belgium, as opposed to langues d'oïl - closely related, but not identical, to French.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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