> Of Jason Darfus
>Decen {DEH-sin} is my new word for a metric dozen (ten versus twelve).You could say dizaine. The english word dozen is a corruption of the french word douzaine. Although english has a style for changing twelve to twelfth and ten to tenth, it does not have a predictable style for changing twelve to dozen etc. The french have: Ten (dix) -> dizaine twelve (douze) -> douzaine fifteen (quinze) -> quinzaine twenty (vingt) -> vingtaine hundred (cent) -> centaine
