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What does, "I am eight AND twenty" mean?

This is an excerpt from William Cooper's testimony before the Sadler Committee 1832.

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I am 28 years old.

Step-by-step explanation:

In the past people sometimes expressed numbers in the way.

Another example would be the time is 'five and twenty minutes past eight'.

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Step-by-step explanation:

I am eight years old with twenty working hours daily

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