Show borrowed anglo saxon words besides bridegroom anglo saxons awo the word twelve and their method of reck reckoning o ing in dozens instead ot of tens to norway the people of norway and iceland had a way of reckoning which made ten equal twelve by the addition of the word tol tolt raed fraed whence the english word twelve corresponding to the swedish dusin when the word dozen the tolt ten meant twelve the tol friedle hundred meant a hundred and ad twenty and so BO on this probably also ex explains them the mediaeval media eval method of counting six lz score ore to tho the hundred |