Jul 31, 2015 · So if linguists tell us that humans have a tendency to shorten words and sentences, and if we acknowledge that the long form is neither necessary for understanding nor required by fixed …

Aug 1, 2011 · We pronounce 1923 as nineteen twenty-three; but 1900 as nineteen hundred. Why isn't year 2000 pronounced as twenty hundred instead of two thousand? What are the rules for …

Jun 6, 2012 · The normal way to say such a date in British English is “the second of February, nineteen ninety-three”. However, a very formal way to speak such a date (almost never used) is “the second …

Aug 4, 2011 · 13 Is it just because "ninth" has only one syllable? That wouldn't make sense, though, because saying "NINE-ith" wouldn't be worse than saying "NINE-e-tee". If we were used to "nineth", …

Possible Duplicate: Pronunciation of years in English Hello As I know, I can read 1991 as nineteen ninety one. How can I read 2008? twenty o eight? or twenty and eight simply?

Apr 17, 2021 · "Nineteen aught one" and "Nineteen o one" have the same number of syllables by my count. A Macmillan Dictionary Blog post speculated on how we might pronounce years that haven't …

May 30, 2017 · The question title refers to expressing thousands using multiples of hundreds, like saying "twelve hundred" instead of "one thousand two hundred" This is somehow new to me. I may have …

Why do you think either syllable needs "stress"? Usually neither are particularly stressed. In some contexts you might emphasise -teen to distinguish it from ninety. Equally, Martin Luther King might …

Dec 7, 2023 · One of these is a year and two are numbers modifying the noun candidates: One hundred ten candidates were accepted. Nineteen thirty-seven was marked, among other things, by the …

Apr 23, 2012 · I'm not sure if the saying of the total amount USD 23,428.32 is correct below (esp. the 'cent' part after the dot): Say U.S. dollars twenty-three thousand four hundred and twenty-eight and …