Show borrowed anglo saxon words be el des bridegroom anglo maxom Saxons owe the word twelve and method of reckoning la in dozens instead 0 of tens to norway the people ot of norway and iceland had bad a way of reckoning which mado made ten tea equal twelve by the addition of the abo word toU raed whence the english word twelve correspond fog to tho the swedish dusan alien ii hen the word dozen tho the tolf ton ten meant twelve the tol riedle hundred meant a hundred and twenty and 0 so o on this probably also alga explains the mediaeval media eval method of counting six score to the hundred |