Any mnemonic in a storm, right? Mnemonics tend to occur to me when I am messing up. I was in a gas station a few weeks ago, trying to communicate that I was at pump number twelve... except I suddenly couldn't remember how to say twelve. Eventually, I wound up just pointing at the silver Citroën, at which point the clerk said "Ah! Douze!"
Yes, it's like "dozen." But the mnemonic that occurred to me at the time was that it's pronounced to rhyme with "booze." That, in turn, reminded me of how the French word for bottle, bouteille, is pronounced: "boo-TAY". Ha ha. I was tempted to give you a YouTube link there, to help you remember boo-TAY, but I would like to keep this blog wholly safe for work.
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