English Numbers

 

English Numbers

English numbers words include numerals and various words derived from them, as well as a large number of words borrowed from other languages. In American usage, four-digit numbers are often named using multiples of “hundred” and combined with tens and ones: “eleven hundred three”, “twelve hundred twenty-five”, “four thousand forty-two”, or “ninety-nine hundred ninety-nine.” In British usage, this style is common for multiples of 100 between 1,000 and 2,000 (e.g. 1,500 as “fifteen hundred”) but not for higher numbers.

Americans may pronounce four-digit numbers with non-zero tens and ones as pairs of two-digit numbers without saying “hundred” and inserting “oh” for zero tens: “twenty-six fifty-nine” or “forty-one oh five”.

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