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.
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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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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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Mrs
Take, from Lower Saxony, Germany. |
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Man from
Lower Saxony, Germany.
Man from
Lower Saxony, Germany. |
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Man from Hesse, Germany.
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Woman from East Prussia (now part of Poland).
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Mrs Drost, from the East Frisian
Islands, Lower Saxony. |
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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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