While watching birds in my garden I thought of the nursery rhyme 'Sing a song o' sixpence' and the 'four-and-twenty blackbirds'.
When I was young people would look at a clock or watch and say, for example, 'It's five-and-twenty past four.' I don't know if people still use this way of pronouncing numbers, or whether it is a regional thing, but nowadays they would be more likely to look at a digital watch or smartphone, and say 'It's four twenty-five.'