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Teaching material > Reading Years (Especially for natives)
Reading Years (Especially for natives)
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curk
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Reading Years (Especially for natives)
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I have a doubt about reading years. I �d appreciate if you could tell me how years from 2010 will be read ( two by two or as a whole figure as in 2000 -2009)
Also, I �d like to know how to read years that end in 00/ 01 and so on , such as 1800, 1801 , etc
Thanks for your help.
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10 Mar 2010
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Lina Ladybird
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I �m afraid I cannot answer all your questions but I can give you something to read:
Hope it helps you a bit!!
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10 Mar 2010
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lizsantiago
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eighteen hundred
two thousand
1981=nighteen eighty one |
10 Mar 2010
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arlissa
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As language is constantly in flux and changing as times progress, it is difficult to say which style will flourish for the 2000 years. However, for ease and quickness of use (something most Americans like) I think it will be broken in two numbers starting with this year (2010).
Examples:
2010 = twenty ten
2023 = twenty twenty-three
and so on...
However, years ending in 00 are usually referred to in terms of hundreds.
Examples:
1800 = eighteen hundred
1400 = fourteen hundred
2100 = twenty-one hundred
Except in the case of millennial years:
1000 = one thousand
2000 = two thousand
Single digit years (ending with 01, 02, etc.) are usually broken into two parts, with "o" in the middle indicating "zero".
Examples:
1702 = seventeen o � two
1909 = nineteen o � nine
Again, except in the case of millennial years:
2005 = two thousand five
3004 = three thousand four
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10 Mar 2010
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