... is how they give you telephone numbers here. Four digits and then three digits. It always hurts my brain a little bit when someone is rhyming numbers off and they begin with "3679". It's just a tiny shift in where the pause falls, but it confuses me every time.
I think it might have origins in the language, since it is spoken and read from right to left.
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