Alphabe Thursday X is for 10

Ha Ha! Saved again by my dear old nursery rhyme book.

I read Latin and after working in a library I have no difficulty remembering Roman numerals although at first I could have used a mantra to fix them in my mind.

I am not sure that this rhyme would have helped much.

X shall stand for playmates Ten:

V for Five stout stalwart men:

I for One, as I am alive:

C is for Hundred, and D for Five:

M for a Thousand soldiers true,

And L is for Fifty, I’ll tell you.