septante

Soixante-dix becomes 6A, since 6x is « soixante » and A is « dix » Then, 7x becomes septante.

Growing in Belgium, we learned that our Walloon brethren use septante (70), quatre-vingts (4 * 20 or 80) and nonante (90).

As far as I know though, this is not the case at all, and septante/huitante/nonante sound strange to actual French people.

Sad fact: French Canadian don't use the (much better) Swiss/Belgian septante/octante/nonante and the awareness in Quebec just isn't high enough to hope for a switch.

I thought nonante (and septante, octante) were only used in Zwitserland and Belgium?

They just never really became widespread and eventually completely died out in France (Belgium also uses septante and nonante ) but the Académie did try to promote them.

Note that you cannot use heptante for septante.

There are dialects of French that don't use that numeral system, Swiss French uses septante, huitante, nonante for 70, 80, 90.

> (I totally dig their counting system though, septante, huitante et nonante makes so much more sense).

> French Canadian don't use the (much better) Swiss/Belgian septante/octante/nonante Sorry for the mistake (I did check on wikipedia before adding Canada do the list but got it wrong).

I learned to distinct several accents: Parisian and Marseillais are different beasts, and Swiss-french is also different (I totally dig their counting system though, septante, huitante et nonante makes so much more sense).

In some countries this is a much more reasonable “septante”, but not in France.

A lifetime of Tintin comic books and "Septante et un" sounds pretty good.

Belgians have "septante" which is more logical but they do not calculate either.

I'm a french canadian and I've never in my life heard someone use "septante/octante/nonante".

Septante (BE) is literally seventy (seven decades), which is much better.

Septante, huitant/octante and nonante are real French words.