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Guest Posted 22 years ago
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How to spell numerical years?

On my way of English studying the qurious question came up: how to spell year 2217, for example? Will it be twenty two and seventeen or? Thanks for help.
  

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Your message interests me very much and I've been hoping that somebody will follow it up. Over a year ago I sent the following message to a Q&A site. Subject: Saying dates Question: Why is it that we say "two thousand three" for 2003 and not "twenty-oh-three"?

— Rambling Rose

  • Your message interests me very much and I've been hoping that somebody will follow it up.
  • Over a year ago I sent the following message to a Q&A site.
  • Subject: Saying dates Question: Why is it that we say "two thousand three" for 2003 and not "twenty-oh-three"?
  • Will we say "twenty ten" when the year 2010 arrives?
  • Am I right in saying that the year 1009 was read as "ten-oh-nine"?
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Your message interests me very much and I've been hoping that somebody will follow it up. Over a year ago I sent the following message to a Q&A site.

Subject: Saying dates
Question: Why is it that we say "two thousand three" for 2003 and not "twenty-oh-three"? Will we say "twenty ten" when the year 2010 arrives? Am I right in saying that the year 1009 was read as "ten-oh-nine"? I
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Maybe ask a foreigner will be useful.
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You say that asking a foreigner might be useful. Could be. What do you mean by a foreigner? I'm American and I have asked several Americans about this and nobody has come up with a good answer.
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2217 will be twenty-two seventeen.

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