By late 14th century, the word had morphed to mean "fussy, fastidious", and in the 1500s - " Precise, careful". By 1926, "nice" meant it was "too great a favourite with the ladies"

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In contrast, East Asian languages have a very clear relation between the tens and units - which has now also been adopted by Welsh. In both instances, 94 would be "nine tens and four", whereas in the old Welsh counting it would have been "two on ten and four twenty".

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Due to the way that numbers are structured in Dutch, the Dutch subjects' gazes would first land on the inverted number (49) , before than looking correctly at 94. This extra processing step could be a reason behind why math could be harder for children who grew up speaking certain languages.
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For example in Dutch, 94 would be writed as vierennegentig - which is broken down as " four and ninety". In a notable example, a group of researchers fitted eye-trackers over adult volunters and gave them images containing numbers, then asked them to look at a given number.
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So, just by looking at what a population calls tea, we can determine if their ancestors traded with China via the Silk Road ( Cha) or Maritime Routes (Te) .

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Coastal populations tended to refer to this beverage as "te" or similiar pronounciation variants - giving rise to the European word "Tea" or "Te", whereas inland populations refered to it as "cha" and its variants, resulting in the other set of names - "Cha" , "chai" and related variants.
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