A cute idea. It's actually just a problem of semantics. Those of us who grew up thining in base 10 often use 10 to mean both "the number of things you get when you add one to nine" and "the symbol 1 followed by the place holder 0". In base 10, calling those two ideas the word "ten" is not a problem, because they have the same numeric value, anyway. However, in base 16, the former of the quoted concepts is called "A". And the latter looks like "10", but it isn't pronounced like "ten".