Eli5: why are 11 and 12 called eleven ant twelve and not oneteen and twoteen?

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Should be “firsteen” and “seconteen” because they are more cohesive with “thirteen” or else we gotta switch to threeteen too, so it goes with fourteen… but then fiveteen…you know what, these numbers can fuck all the way off