Old English concatenated words to create eleven. It was “ten plus one” or “endleofan”. It was a desperate move after resources were exhausted and you had to count past your finger quantity. In Hunimal’s first incarnation eleven is “onte”, which sounds like “one”, which is nice since eleven is full of ones, but it also sounds like :”want” which gives it those available puns. But Hunimal alternative verion, hunimal2.0 can have eleven as “ween” which is both a great band and a wuh word that starts like one and ends with the teen sound. Hunimal 2.0 goes “zeen, ween, tween, threen, forn, vine, skeen, sveen, geen, neen” This provides a suffix that letx you know you are in the tens. I don’t discuss it much though because so few people know hunimal that to propose an alternative could distract and confuse… Nevertheless Ween, the band, is the kind of music group that attracts the type of person who could enjoy Hunimal the most. Their music is cerebral and silly and filled with alternatives to the mainstream. …. I need to reference the children’s book that taught me :”endleofan” for this book so that I produce my sources, but right now I don’t have that Author and title…
Ten plus one, Endleofan.
September 20th, 2021 by David