Numbers are alternatively odd and even. “I was only young when I learned to count. It was odd at first, even then” was posted on Twitter by Lee Evans (and others) on April 13, 2011. “I was very young when I learnt to count. It was odd at first, even then” was printed in The Mercury (Durban, South Africa) on April 19, 2011.
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⚓Lee Evans⚓
@LeePhilipEvans
I was only young when I learned to count. It was odd at first, even then.
7:42 AM · Apr 13, 2011·Twitter Web Client
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I was only young when I learned to count. It was odd at first, even then.
12:38 PM · Apr 13, 2011·erased734497
19 April 2011, The Mercury (Durban, South Africa), “Anger, disappointment, temper,” pg. ?:
Numbers game
I was very young when I learnt to count. It was odd at first, even then.
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I was only young when I learned to count. It was odd at first, even then.
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Bob Kostic
@causticbob
I was only young when I learned to count.
It was odd at first, even then.
5:05 PM · Jun 30, 2016·Twitter Web Client
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I was only young when I learned to count…
It was odd at first, even then!
2:41 PM · Apr 23, 2018·Twitter for iPhone
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u/porichoygupto September 14, 2019
When I first learned how to count, I found it very strange at the beginning.
It was odd at first, even then.
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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.
Also listen to a 1937 "The Big Apple" song by Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra. See a 1929 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald and a 1931 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald.
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