Pronouncing written things, spelling

What a curious question.

Nope. No rule. Do what you like. I'm not sure that even counts as grammar.

Oh - just thought of something. Never say "double U". That could confuse.

Rommie

Thanks! Ok. It's not grammar, it's a question of a foreigner who is only familiar with written english. There is a lot of things which I am not sure how to pronounce.

For example, at school we were taught to name years like 1991 this way 'nineteen ninety one'; it was not until recently that I came to know that 2004 is not 'twenty-o-four' but simply 'Two thousand four'!

Do you

Okay, I understand. So things like email addresses, web addresses, telephone numbers and so on might give you some difficulty? You are more than welcome to ask about anything like this. The only reason for my hesitation is that often there ISN'T a single "rule" about these things - it's often just personal preference. But you are right about 2004.

On a related subject, even I don

Fortunately, I have learned how to pronounce e-mail addresses: 'ad' for @, 'dot' for '.', 'underline' for '_', 'slash' for '/'.

But another thing which makes stumble is mathematics.
3+4=7 - Three plus four is equal to 7? Or equals 7?
*** - Three times five?
2.***.5 - Two point one times three and a half?
2^5 - Two to the power of five (I mean 2^5=***)
sin(x) - S

@ - "at"
3+4=7 - "Three plus four equals 7."
*** - "Three times five."
2.***.5 - "Two point one times three point five."
2^5 - "Two to the power of five"
sin(x) - "Sine of x" or "Sine x"
1.***^(-19) - "One point six times ten to the power of negative nineteen."

Bonus:
6.0 - "six point oh."

did you get an answer to SPELL - I'd say double L

I would also say 6.0 was six point nought!

Thanks pedant and suzi!

suzi, NOUGHT? Never heard this!

Ok, can someone tell me how to pronounce these scalar and vector multiplication operations (A and B, are vectors here, i, j, k - unit vectors):

(AB) (which is AxBx+AyBy+AzCz) - Dotproduct of A and B? A dot B? A dotproduct B?
[A x B] (which is (AyBz-AzBy)i+(AzBx-AxBz)j+(AxBy-AyBx)k) - Crossproduct of A and

Hi Bubr,

when I was in high school (many years ago...) I saw some mathematic books did "write" the formula. May be you can find out from library

(sorry that I cannot help you as I have forgotten what I had learnt from shool... ha ha)

I think nought is an old fashioned word for nothing (pronounced "nort")
It has a partner word, "ought" which meant "anything" in phrases like "for ought I know" which you might find yourself reading in old books

in the UK we still use nought in the number system as I said above, point nought!

Hi nestman! Do you mean a book that teaches how to pronounce formulae?