from 1 to 10 in Modern English |
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from 1 to 10 in Old English |
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Click on the buttons below to hear how we pronounce each number
today. |
Click on the buttons below to hear how each number was spoken
by our Old English ancestors: the Angles and the Saxons. |
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| 1.
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used
to be pronounced
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back in time
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 Mrs Take, from Lower Saxony, Germany. |
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| 2.
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Speaker from the part of the Netherlands next to Lower Saxony, Germany. |
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| 3.
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Bob from Aberdeenshire saying "three" in Scots. |
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| 4.
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Mrs Take, from Lower Saxony, Germany. |
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| 5.
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Man from Lower Saxony, Germany. Man from Lower Saxony, Germany. |
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| 6.
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Man from Hesse, Germany. |
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| 7.
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Woman from East Prussia (now part of Poland). |
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| 8.
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Mrs Drost, from the East Frisian Islands, Lower Saxony. |
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| 9.
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Woman from near Hannover, Lower Saxony. |
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| 10.
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Man from Lower Saxony. Woman from East Prussia (now part of Poland). |
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