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It's also weird for 50-59. English does not say "fourty twelve" ("quarante-douze").

Neither does French, you're confusing 50 with 70. https://frm.wiktionary.org/wiki/quarante-douze

Edit: 50, not 60.

At least in Belgium we fixed that with "septante"

But making things completely logical would have been too much for us so we kept quatre-vingt.