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If someone is one and twenty, they are one and twenty years old, or one plus twenty years old, or 1 + 20 or 21 years old. Another similar wording is "four and twenty black birds" from Sing a Song of Sixpence, the well known English nursery rhyme. In those couple of lines of verse, four and twenty Blackbirds is four plus twenty blackbirds or 4 + 20 or 24 blackbirds.

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