Henry V (1989) Kenneth Branagh, Royal Fellowship of Death

Seems it was the common way all over Northern Europe of saying numbers - ie. the ones before the tens - back then.
Actually we still use it in Denmark & Norway. Also in Netherlands and Germany.

You can often see/ hear it used in Shakespears' plays and in other old English litterature, as well as in some rural E. dialects, even to this day, I think.

There were nations back then as well as now - just different types and different names. Try reading Beowulf for instance, and you will see how occupied they were with what tribe or nation people belong to.

Please don't all their modern PC- propaganda, designed to make us forget or hate our own cultures and nations and accept the power of the huge EU brother state that they are busy creating against the wills of their own peoples ;-)

where were the bathrooms to clean up after the battle,,I looked and looked and looked,,,,,,

Hey, That's Brian Blessed!

Standtogetherforever is correct. Five and twenty means 520. The English lost approximately 500 men at the battle.

nah, its the old english way of saying '25'
in "Emma" she says shes "4 and 20" so 24. they were weird that way :P

knightsintodreams, are you a latino from USA? latinos are not real white-men

In dutch it is still that way, so could be right..

In Denmark and Norway we still say the ones before the tens - silly really when you think about it ;-)

Same thing in German, whereas the Swedes have similar system to that of modern English. Wondering when that happened.

....white-men?? don't call us that. like that. 'white guys' is a classifier. like, some white guys wouldn't let me merge!! >:O
but white-men is racist sounding.. yaknowwhatimean? not nice, nice nice. you wouldn't like it if i called people 'the black-men'. or 'the slant eyes'. or something. its 2009, we're beyond that :P i'm just saying~