English number words are pretty logical after a point. From twenty-one to ninety-nine, the same principle applies: you say the tens place followed by the units place. But the teens are different. Not only does the ten come after the units place (10+7 is not teen-seven but seventeen), eleven and twelve don't fit in at all.
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Neither do teen-three and teen-five, morphing respectively into thirteen and fifteen.
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