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Bookmark or Share- Is it improper English to read the number 1100 as "eleven hundred"?You can say nineteen-hundred, but not "twenty-one-hundred". Years are different, and I'd expect the year 2147 to be said as "twenty-one forty-seven". But the number 2147 would never be said that way: it's always "two thousand one hundred and forty-seven" (and note the and there; that's never omitted in BrE). Even with years, it's still not ...
- How do you correctly say large numbersBack in high school my algebra teacher was extremely picky. If we were going to say the number 135, we would say one hundred thirty-five. If a person said one hundred and thirty-five my teacher would interpret that to mean 100.35. Was my algebra teacher wrong, or did Jon just waste over 80 hours counting to 100,000 incorrectly.
- word usage - One hundred and fifty-one or one hundred fifty-one ...If you choose to speak “one hundred and twenty-five” which is what 90%+ of Americans say, not a big deal unless you take pride in speaking correctly. The problem occurs when the same person speaks .125 as “one hundred and twenty five thousandths” which is the number 100.025. .125 is correctly spoken “one hundred twenty-five ...
- American vs. British English: meaning of "One hundred and fifty"(Note that mathematical sentences can include multiple "and"s; eg two and two and two is six (2+2+2=6).) So "one-hundred and fifty" would be 100 + 50 where "one-hundred fifty" would be 150. That being said, "one-hundred and fifty thousand" is commonly interpreted as 150,000, not 100 + 50,000.
- Difference between "hundred", "a hundred", and "one hundred"?In the UK 'a hundred, a hundred and one, a hundred and two' etc is a common style when speaking about 100, 101, 102 etc. This form is also used when writing what has been spoken. 'One hundred' is also used. Either form is also used for 1,000, i.e.'a thousand', or 'one thousand' etc.
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