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If you are driving and ask the distance to another town, it will be given to you in lee‿EE.

One lee‿EE equals about one-third of a mile.

One—EE

Two—AHR!

Three—SAHN

Four—SZI

Five—woo‿OO

Six—LEE!oo

Seven—CHEE

Eight—BAH

Nine—jee‿OH

Ten—SHER

For the numbers "eleven" through "nineteen" you say: SHER, the number for "ten," then add the words for "one," "two," "three," and so on.

Eleven—SHER EE

Twelve—SHER AHR!

The words for "twenty," "thirty," "forty," "fifty," and so on, are simply the words for "two," "three," "four," "five," and so on, plus the word for "ten." The words for "twenty-one," "thirty-two," and so on, are simply the words for "twenty," "thirty," plus the words for "one," "two," and so on.

Twenty—''AHR! SHER''

Thirty-two—SAHN SHER AHR!

Hundred—bah‿EE

Thousand—CHEE-YEHN

Ten thousand—WAHN! 55