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Bookmark or Share- Saying years - how to speak, pronounce, year numbers ... years and ...Hello to everybody! I have a problem saying the years in English. I learnt at school that they are said like this: 1919: nineteen nineteen But how can I say? 1900? 1805? 2010 and in the future?: 3107, 3100? Thanks a lot to everybody. Best regards, Julia
- '80s, 80s, 80's, of the 80s | WordReference ForumsI would write "the '80s" because it leaves out the first two digits of the decade. "The '80s" is short for "the 1980s" in most contexts, though if one were writing a history of the 19th century, it might be short for "the 1880s." As you can tell from the previous paragraph, I don't use an apostrophe for the plural.
- vary from...to... or vary between...and ... | WordReference ForumsI don't see that your nos. 1 and 2 actually mean anything, unless you want to say perhaps that in the 1980s he collected paintings, then in the 1990s he sold them all and bought sculptures, and after 2000 he went back to collecting paintings again.
- In his "80's" or "80s"? - WordReference ForumsIf I want to rephrase "He is 85 years old", which of the following two should I use: He is in his 80's or He is in his 80s?
- I Remember Vs I Just Remembered Vs I've just rememberedInvestigator: Didn't he used to work with you in the 1980s? Suspect: Oh, yes. I've just remembered. It's coming back to me now. He was dismissed for misusing the photocopier. But I still can't remember his name. That's quite different from this other example: I remember my first day at secondary school. I was so nervous, I could never forget it.
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