Here 25 is _fuenf und zwanzig_, 5 and 20; 92 is _zwei und neunzig_, 2 and 90, and so on to 99.

Above 100 the order is made direct, as in English.

Of course, this mode of formation between 20 and 100 is permissible in English, where "five and twenty" is just as correct a form as twenty-five.

But it is archaic, and would soon pass out of the language altogether, were it not for the influence of some of the older writings which have had a strong influence in preserving for us many of older and more essentially Saxon forms of expression.
Both the methods described above are found in all parts of the world, but what I have called the direct is far more common than the other.

In general, where the smaller number precedes the larger it signifies multiplication instead of addition.