The French Counting System - A Quork of History

The french used to use a 20 bas system to count because theymen wear shoes, and they used their toes to count. Then they adopted the ten base system, like us. And then they decided to reinsert their traditional counting method, but only for specific numbers. A lovely quork of history. But not all french is the same. Go to belgium or switzerland, and along with waffles, smerts and toblerones, you'll find setant and nonant instead of soisson dis and catravandis fascinating our thanks to professor ludovin broct. The programme, which is made in association with the open university, will be back at