Q:

Are “fuchzehn” and “fuchzig” dialectal expressions?

I noticed that people sometimes use fuchzehn and fuchzig instead of fünfzehn and fünfzig. Is there a certain reason or is this just dialect?

A:

The pronunciation fuchzehn (as well as fuffzehn) is a regional variant of the standard German word fünfzehn. It is mainly used in the south-east of the German language area. The area of distribution is shown in a linguistic map of the linguistic atlas Atlas zur deutschen Alltagssprache:

A:

It's just dialect. Only "fünfzehn" and "fünfzig" are correct.

