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8th Feb 2010, 17:42

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blousky

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Also, "eighty knots" is much quicker to say than "one hundred knots".
Maybe the French say it as "Cent Noeuds", which in turn is easier than "quatre-vingts Noeuds".
Being relatively arbitrary figures, they may have chosen those that sounds better?

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