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[Question] How do you read it ?
Generally speaking, we read...
1998(year) : Nineteen ninety-eight !
Now, how this ?
2003(year) : ?
I've heard that it's twenty two or two thousand three. What is right ?
1998(year) : Nineteen ninety-eight !
Now, how this ?
2003(year) : ?
I've heard that it's twenty two or two thousand three. What is right ?
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[nq:1]At present most people say t0 thousand and three. Looking back a century to 1903 - this is pronounced either ... if you said twenty oh three.
- [nq:1]At present most people say t0 thousand and three.
- Looking back a century to 1903 - this is pronounced either ...
- if you said twenty oh three.
- [/nq] We haven't yet settled on the informal abbreviation of the year, especially in speech (along the lines of "The Beatles became famous in sixty-three").
- In the early nineteenth century, they referred happily to "the year three" and even "the year ought", but nobody seems to be doing that this time around.
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[nq:1]At present most people say t0 thousand and three. Looking back a century to 1903 - this is pronounced either ... if you said twenty oh three. If you say twenty three people will think you are saying the figure 23.[/nq]
We haven't yet settled on the informal abbreviation of the year, especially in speech (along the lines of "The Beatles became famous in sixty-three"). In the early ninete
We haven't yet settled on the informal abbreviation of the year, especially in speech (along the lines of "The Beatles became famous in sixty-three"). In the early ninete
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[nq:2]At present most people say t0 thousand and three. Looking ... three people will think you are saying the figure 23.[/nq]
[nq:1]We haven't yet settled on the informal abbreviation of the year, especially in speech (along the lines of "The Beatles ... two digits of year)" was dropped from the TV, since nobody would have known how to pronounce it after '99![/nq]
Film Ho-Ho?
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[nq:1]We haven't yet settled on the informal abbreviation of the year, especially in speech (along the lines of "The Beatles ... two digits of year)" was dropped from the TV, since nobody would have known how to pronounce it after '99![/nq]
Film Ho-Ho?
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[nq:1]Generally speaking, we read... 1998(year) : Nineteen ninety-eight ! Now, how this ? 2003(year) : ? I've heard that it's twenty two or two thousand three. What is right ?[/nq]
"Two thousand and three for me". Hey! that rhymes!
The only person here (who's replied anyhoo) to add an "and"
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"Two thousand and three for me". Hey! that rhymes!
The only person here (who's replied anyhoo) to add an "and"
kt.
-- .sig is in the post
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[nq:1]Generally speaking, we read... 1998(year) : Nineteen ninety-eight ! Now, how this ? 2003(year) : ? I've heard that it's twenty two or two thousand three. What is right ?[/nq]
A friend of mine took exception to the fact that people might use the "thousand" form but I pointed out to him that his telling this to everyone he knew wouldn't make a blind bit of difference. Why anyone should
A friend of mine took exception to the fact that people might use the "thousand" form but I pointed out to him that his telling this to everyone he knew wouldn't make a blind bit of difference. Why anyone should
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