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Since "dinky-doo" is slang for 22, why don't we call the number 322 "three hundred and dinky-doo"?

In other words, why is "dinky-doo" only used for the number 22 alone and not for larger numbers ending in 22?
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Danky doo is slang for 122, and I think dunky-doo means 1022, but after that I dunno.

Dinky-doo is no shorter to say than twenty-two and where do you live?
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@BatFasterly Not MOCK your question. I thought you were a trifle tongue-in-cheek, too, which I find endearing.

But, eyes downcast and slightly ashamed, I did make them up.
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I once made up an inflatable car jack that someone had already made up. I feel your pain.@BatFasterly
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@BatFasterly I would've, but it was already patented.

When video games became the rage, my brother invented a Video Game First Aid Kit (eye drops for dry weary eyes, bandaids for blistered fingers) but he waited a year to pursue it and it was already on the market.
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@BatFasterly A girl in our church once said to my dad, Everywhere I go, you follow right in front of me.

That happens to me a lot.