Because life is based around the number twelve, eleven actually means one before twelve, but because humans have ten digits we chose to base it around ten. Look around you and everything, time and so on, is based on the number twelve and it is subtly hidden inside our language.
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it isn't called onety one because that is the way albert eninestine wanted it.
As a number, it would be pronounced "one thousand nine hundred and four". As a year, it would be pronounced "nineteen oh four".
10.
This number 1,600,000,000 (16 followed by 8 zeros) would be "pronounced": One Trillion, Six Hundred Billion. Or said another it was could be: Sixteen Hundred Billion.
The word tried has only one syllable. It is pronounced with a single stress point.