we make the words for English numbers regular up to 99. (future post French.)
0 zero
1 one
2 two
3 three
4 four
5 five
6 six
7 seven
8 eight
9 nine
10 one-ty-zero
11 one-ty-one
12 one-ty-two
13 one-ty-three
14 one-ty-four
15 one-ty-five
16 one-ty-six
17 one-ty-seven
18 one-ty-eight
19 one-ty-nine
20 two-ty-zero
21 two-ty-one
22 two-ty-two
23 two-ty-three
24 two-ty-four
25 two-ty-five
26 two-ty-six
27 two-ty-seven
28 two-ty-eight
29 two-ty-nine
30 three-ty-zero
31 three-ty-one
32 three-ty-two
33 three-ty-three
34 three-ty-four
35 three-ty-five
36 three-ty-six
37 three-ty-seven
38 three-ty-eight
39 three-ty-nine
40 four-ty-zero
41 four-ty-one
42 four-ty-two
43 four-ty-three
44 four-ty-four
45 four-ty-five
46 four-ty-six
47 four-ty-seven
48 four-ty-eight
49 four-ty-nine
50 five-ty-zero
51 five-ty-one
52 five-ty-two
53 five-ty-three
54 five-ty-four
55 five-ty-five
56 five-ty-six
57 five-ty-seven
58 five-ty-eight
59 five-ty-nine
60 six-ty-zero
61 six-ty-one
62 six-ty-two
63 six-ty-three
64 six-ty-four
65 six-ty-five
66 six-ty-six
67 six-ty-seven
68 six-ty-eight
69 six-ty-nine
70 seven-ty-zero
71 seven-ty-one
72 seven-ty-two
73 seven-ty-three
74 seven-ty-four
75 seven-ty-five
76 seven-ty-six
77 seven-ty-seven
78 seven-ty-eight
79 seven-ty-nine
80 eight-ty-zero
81 eight-ty-one
82 eight-ty-two
83 eight-ty-three
84 eight-ty-four
85 eight-ty-five
86 eight-ty-six
87 eight-ty-seven
88 eight-ty-eight
89 eight-ty-nine
90 nine-ty-zero
91 nine-ty-one
92 nine-ty-two
93 nine-ty-three
94 nine-ty-four
95 nine-ty-five
96 nine-ty-six
97 nine-ty-seven
98 nine-ty-eight
99 nine-ty-nine
optionally omit "-zero" in multiples of 10 for brevity, if it does not cause ambiguity. for example, if reading a string of numbers, we need to keep "-zero" to distinguish "90 9" from "99", or "10 4" from "14". (the former is a problem in unfixed English, additionally ambiguous with "19 9".)
keeping "ten" as an isolated irregular but convenient synonym for one-ty-zero seems reasonable.
one-ty sounds similar to the old word twenty, but not the new word two-ty.
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