After all these years in Paris, I still have a hard time with French numbers. That's because the French, unlike other French speakers, for example in Belgium or Switzerland, still use the "score," as in "four-score-and-seven years ago...."
75 = sixty-and-fifteen (Do you see a seven in that?)
98 = four-twenties-and-eighteen (Do you see a nine in that?)
Even French people always hesitate just a fraction of a second when writing these. And when you think that telephone numbers in France are always given as, for example,
"zéro-un-quarante-deux-soixante-treize-quatre-vingt-quatorze-quatre-vingt-douze"*
you see why we anglophones still have trouble writing that as fast as they say it.
Honestly, I don't know how they do math.
*01.42.72.94.92 (just a random Paris number I picked, sorry if it's yours!)
