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Twelve, because humans once counted on knuckles instead of fingers and never looked back.
means A group of twelve of something.
from From Old French 'dozaine,' built on 'douze' meaning twelve, which traces back to Latin 'duodecim' — literally 'two' (duo) plus 'ten' (decem). The word came into English after the Norman Conquest, when a wave of French market and trade vocabulary settled into everyday use — and a dozen eggs or oysters became the standard unit of commerce.
- origin
- from old french douzaine, meaning group of twelve
- baker's dozen
- thirteen, a medieval hedge against shortchanging fines
- why twelve
- divides evenly by 2, 3, 4, and 6
- still everywhere
- eggs, donuts, roses all sold this way worldwide