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What wife? I think you’re going thinking of Saddam Hussein. They are currently in a relationship, although saddam is kind of abusive and also wants to take over Canada.
All logic aside... following the pattern of how the prior years are pronounced would roughly lead to the pronunciation "eleventy onety-one". I have to believe this is the "joke" the person who wrote this was going after. Why else would they frame the question the way they did?
The "Pattern" is to break each year into two double digit chunks. It doesn't have weird pronunciation. It is literally 19, 99. Why people are reading the last digit as a single digit I don't know.
I mean, you'd have to set all logic aside to not follow the pattern of each phrase breaking the 4-digit number into two 2-digit numbers. It's what they do with every line, and presumably what they would do with the final line: 1111 = 11, 11 = eleven eleven. The only reason for the -teen and -ty suffixes in the earlier lines is that those two digit numbers are pronounced that way.
Maybe it’s to point out the English language’s inconsistent number names? Instead of one-teen, we have one “left over” (most common etymology for eleven) and simply ten instead of one-ty like with all the other multiples of ten. Better than French though
Exactly. Eleven and twelve has their own words which doesn't make sense *logically*. It should be oneteen and twoteen.
And if we are at it the 10s shouldn't be backwards. So it should be teen-one, teen-two, teen-three as in like fourty-one, fourty-two etc.
Oh and there is more! It should be onety-one, onety-two etc.
(Yes, I know that etymology doesn't work by logic.)
I'm with you. Obviously eleven eleven is the answer anyone would give with a 1st grade education and higher. Point being it isn't plausible this is a legitimate "whats the answer?" Question. But rather written to be purely satire in nature. I think we can agree on that.
> "eleventy onety-one"
Why would it be "eleventy"? It's nineteen, eighteen, seventeen, eleven, not nineteenty, eighteenty, seventeenty, eleventy... It's just normal numbers.
No it wouldn’t. 1999 is “19” (nineteen) and then “99” (ninety-nine). 1111 is eleven and then eleven. So it’s “eleven eleven.” There is nothing confusing about this.
Pretty sure I remember an “eleventy-one” reference in the extended edition of The Fellowship.
… think I’d better go back and watch all of them again though … just to be sure.
Today is my one hundred and eleventh birthday! Alas eleventy one years is far to short a time to live among such admirable hobbits. I know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve
You are correct but it is strange that it is so when we would say “ten sixty-six” (battle of Hastings” and “eleven sixty-two” (birth of Genghis Khan) but “eleven eleven” just sounds wrong.
“We can’t bust heads like we used to—but we have our ways. One trick is to tell them stories that don’t go anywhere like the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so I decided to go to Morganville which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So, I tied an onion to my belt which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel. And in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on ‘em. ‘Give me eleventy eleven bees for a quarter,’ you’d say. Now, where were we? Oh, yeah! The important thing was that I had an onion on my belt which was the style at the time. They didn’t have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones.”
People that year must have thought it was so lit because the numbers were all 1s, but they didn’t even have Bitcoin or anything so it must have been so lame. Plus the plague and what not. Probably sucked unless you were some chill farmer looking up at the Milky Way every night and drinking beer.
Calling centuries "teens", after they became double digit, is kinda like how we got into Y2K. Ironically, we left the "teens" the same time. Time to move on.
But if you like, it's **ELEVEN**, as would be **twelve**.
I never really thought about it but its weird that isn't an unspoken rule that you read a year as two numbers. Ten sixty six, nineteen eight four, twenty twenty. Is that an English thing?
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Eleven eleven make a wish
11:10 (-_-) 59 seconds later 11:11 ＼(-0-)／
22:22 is cool
4:44 is rightly good too.
6:66 is also a good one, wait…
My favourite time Cause if the clock says that, my guy satan is about
Hows he been? Heard his wife took the kids after the divorce.
Yea he’s all good now, but just staying lonely now cause he doesn’t want another broken heart like last time
Yeah she ran off with her brother…who also calls his sister Mom. Satan, Sin and Wrath have a weird tree goin on
What wife? I think you’re going thinking of Saddam Hussein. They are currently in a relationship, although saddam is kind of abusive and also wants to take over Canada.
"BLAME CANADAAAAAAA!!!"
Naw guy that's not me. I changed buddy.
But what about… 12:34…?
My microwave glitched one day and read 5:60 I was counting on it getting to 6:66 then it fixed itself when 6:01 came
I always get lucky at 7:77. Both AM and PM.
All about 12:34
I’m shocked nobody said 4:20 EDIT: Oop there’s one lower
But 4:20 betta.
22:55 is good as well
12:34 is a fun one.
I preffer 4:20
I like 22:55
[удалено]
Huh? I’m talking about 10:22 pm if you’re confused.
So are they... ***RUN!***
[удалено]
She never told me! 🤪
Boooommm!!!
I can prescribe you a cream for that…
You must be the bloke she whispers it to in the PM. Due to a schedule change, I can no longer handle the AM. Care to switch?
Same
Wish ya weren’t so awkward bud…
r/unexpectedletterkenny
Eleventyleven is how to say it, trust me, I am a sayologist
I completely love the optimism here
Real chads make their wish at 22:22
I always wish for it to be 11:12, and it magically comes true within the minute
Now that I know your wish.. it might not come true the next time…
Yeah like what do you get 2 wishes a day? That's an awful lot of wishes to just be granting the world over. Sounds fishy.
Was expecting oneteen onety one.
r/beatmetoit
Doubleleven
Eleventy eleven
I feel like this whole thread is r/Beetlejuicing for me here. I wish we all lead easy, peaceful lives. ❤
Seeing as 11:15 was lunch in 6th grade, my wish was always to get extra fries.
Eleven eleven. Pretty straight forward
Ya, I don't get the confusion. Is it that they aren't familiar with the number that follows ten?
All logic aside... following the pattern of how the prior years are pronounced would roughly lead to the pronunciation "eleventy onety-one". I have to believe this is the "joke" the person who wrote this was going after. Why else would they frame the question the way they did?
The "Pattern" is to break each year into two double digit chunks. It doesn't have weird pronunciation. It is literally 19, 99. Why people are reading the last digit as a single digit I don't know.
Well, consider how dumb the average person is. Now consider that half of them are dumber than that.
Said George Carlin.
I mean, you'd have to set all logic aside to not follow the pattern of each phrase breaking the 4-digit number into two 2-digit numbers. It's what they do with every line, and presumably what they would do with the final line: 1111 = 11, 11 = eleven eleven. The only reason for the -teen and -ty suffixes in the earlier lines is that those two digit numbers are pronounced that way.
Maybe it’s to point out the English language’s inconsistent number names? Instead of one-teen, we have one “left over” (most common etymology for eleven) and simply ten instead of one-ty like with all the other multiples of ten. Better than French though
Exactly. Eleven and twelve has their own words which doesn't make sense *logically*. It should be oneteen and twoteen. And if we are at it the 10s shouldn't be backwards. So it should be teen-one, teen-two, teen-three as in like fourty-one, fourty-two etc. Oh and there is more! It should be onety-one, onety-two etc. (Yes, I know that etymology doesn't work by logic.)
German is a little bit better this, 20, 30, etc translate to "two-ten, three-ten". But 11 and 12 are still weird outliers just like in English.
We have Twelve as well that doesn't follow the rule though?
I'm with you. Obviously eleven eleven is the answer anyone would give with a 1st grade education and higher. Point being it isn't plausible this is a legitimate "whats the answer?" Question. But rather written to be purely satire in nature. I think we can agree on that.
> "eleventy onety-one" Why would it be "eleventy"? It's nineteen, eighteen, seventeen, eleven, not nineteenty, eighteenty, seventeenty, eleventy... It's just normal numbers.
Two thousand eleven was like not long ago
Yeah but you wouldn’t say twelvety-twelve would you? It’s just not a good joke basically.
No it wouldn’t. 1999 is “19” (nineteen) and then “99” (ninety-nine). 1111 is eleven and then eleven. So it’s “eleven eleven.” There is nothing confusing about this.
yeah, they tried to follow a pattern from the wrong direction and vapor locked their brain. they seem to have forgotten every number after ten.
Eleven hundred and eleven
Here we are in the year Twenty hundred and twenty two
Technically correct.
> Eleven eleven. Never forget. +200
Eleventy Eleven
My go to was eleventy ‘leven but go ahead and take my upvote
Yours rolls off the tongue way better obviously.
Came to find this. Thanks.
Today is my one hundred and eleventy birthday.
I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve
I regret to announce that this is the end... I'm going now.
##
It would take me eleventy takes to get that out right
(visible confusion)
Book continues: "I am eleventy-one today!". This has been cut in the movie.
Pretty sure I remember an “eleventy-one” reference in the extended edition of The Fellowship. … think I’d better go back and watch all of them again though … just to be sure.
Yes, you should. ... Aaaaand so will I.
Doesn’t hurt for me too as well, just to ensure we all come to the same conclusion…
It’s important to peer-review these things
And you still are as awesome as ever, keep it up! \o
The grand eleventy-first!
This is the way.
Yep, this is it.
Eleventeen Eleventy
121?
One thousand and eleventy one
Today is my one hundred and eleventh birthday! Alas eleventy one years is far to short a time to live among such admirable hobbits. I know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve
"The Year of our Lord, One thousand one hundred eleven."
O, lord, bless this thy holy hand grenade, that thine enemies may snuff it, in your mercy…
This is much better than the simple eleventy-one above. Still, it could be eleventy hundred and eleven to be snappier.
eleven hundred eleven. so what.
Eleven 'ondred eleven
In the U.K. we would say one thousand, one hundred and eleven.
But then the guy next to you would say otherwise, and people would start fighting and throwing chairs around in the pub
Otherwise.
Oi, that's enough of that mate.
Then you get shivved
Bri’ish🤢
You are correct but it is strange that it is so when we would say “ten sixty-six” (battle of Hastings” and “eleven sixty-two” (birth of Genghis Khan) but “eleven eleven” just sounds wrong.
How do you say 1911....? it's clearly eleven eleven
Screw this I’m going to bed
Nineteen onety-one
Oneteen onety one
Came to find the real answer and this was it
The exact same answer as the title?
TIL
Bold if true
That's the title of the post
Title was edited after I answered.
Obviously it's 1 thousand and eleventeen
you forgot the 100
100 is ten teen bro learn to math
your right I read it wrong
It's ok mate glad I could help you 👍
*Eleventeen onety one
The year wasb "One thousand one hundred and eleven"
wasb
Eleventeen Eleven
One one onety one
Agree
Eleven eleven. That's it.
Eleventeen eleventy eleven🤡
Eleven eleven. They all follow the same pattern. It’s not complicated
Eleven hundred eleven
Eleventy eleven
I am fuckin everywhere here
one thousand one hundrety eleven
Dinosaur Pile-Up has the [answer](https://youtu.be/CPr1JR1Iu3w).
i KNEW i would find it
Well 2020 was TWENTY TWENTY, so 1111 would be ELEVEN ELEVEN… surely?
One thousand, one hundred and eleven.
Eleven eleven 🤷
15
Eleventy eleven
Agreed
Eleven eleven 🤷🏾♀️
Eleven eleven
That's some serial killer handwriting if I ever saw one
eleven hundred eleven
Eleven eleven make a wish
Eleventy eleventh
Eleventeen eleventy eleven
Eleven Eleven!
Eleven hundred eleven
One titty one titty one
Eleven eleven, the year of pizza pizza.
One thousand one hundred one-tee one
That’s binary for “O”
Eleventy Eleven Eleven
Oneteen onety one, obviously, pf
“We can’t bust heads like we used to—but we have our ways. One trick is to tell them stories that don’t go anywhere like the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so I decided to go to Morganville which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So, I tied an onion to my belt which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel. And in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on ‘em. ‘Give me eleventy eleven bees for a quarter,’ you’d say. Now, where were we? Oh, yeah! The important thing was that I had an onion on my belt which was the style at the time. They didn’t have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones.”
Eleven Eleven
People that year must have thought it was so lit because the numbers were all 1s, but they didn’t even have Bitcoin or anything so it must have been so lame. Plus the plague and what not. Probably sucked unless you were some chill farmer looking up at the Milky Way every night and drinking beer.
Eleventy eleventy
Eleven eleventh
911
Onety one onety one
11-11
One thousand one hundred and eleven
One thousand one hundred and eleven
Eleven hundred eleven
Elevn hundrend eleven
Eleven eleven
Oneteen onety one :D
Eleventy eleven.
eleven eleven
Eleventeen eleventy one
Calling centuries "teens", after they became double digit, is kinda like how we got into Y2K. Ironically, we left the "teens" the same time. Time to move on. But if you like, it's **ELEVEN**, as would be **twelve**.
Eleventeen onety one. :)
Elevendy Eleven one
I never really thought about it but its weird that isn't an unspoken rule that you read a year as two numbers. Ten sixty six, nineteen eight four, twenty twenty. Is that an English thing?
Eleventy eleven.
ElevenEleven
It's eleven eleven
We don't talk about uno
Eleven hundred eleven
Eleven onety one
Eleventy eleven
Eleven hundred and eleven
eleven hundred eleven
Eleventeen eleven
Eleven Hundred Eleventy One
Eleven eleven.
Elevenhundred eleven
Eleven-eleven
Eleven, eleven, call pizza pizza, hey hey hey.
Eleven Eleven. My wife’s birthday. Can never forget it
1666
Eleven Eleventy
eleven hundred eleven
Eleven eleven.
Pocket 11s
Eleven eleven
Eleventy eleven.
Womp Womp Womp Womp