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Perfect Stranger Posted 12 years ago
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How to read "400s" and "2000s" ?

Hello there,

How do we read these dates?

Between 400s and 1500s... Do we read it as fourhundreds?

How do we read 2000s?

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Four hundreds, fifteen hundreds. We're not too far into the new millennium, but I think that so far we are using 'two thousands'.

— Philip

  • Four hundreds, fifteen hundreds.
  • We're not too far into the new millennium, but I think that so far we are using 'two thousands'.
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Four hundreds, fifteen hundreds. We're not too far into the new millennium, but I think that so far we are using 'two thousands'.
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Thanks Philip,

How about 1200s? Can we read it as one thousand two hundreds?
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Philip, allow me please to ask one more question here. How do we read...

The economy of western Europe, devastated since the fall of Rome, began to improve around 1000.
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I would say the year one thousand. There are probably other viable expressions.
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How do we read these dates?

Between 400s and 1500s... Do we read it as fourhundreds?
I would write and read these as between the 5th and 16th centuries.

How do we read 2000s? Again, I would use the 21st century.

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