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- Is it improper English to read the number 1100 as eleven hundred?
For numbers between 1000 and 9999 is it proper English for the word "hundred" to be used? For example is it necessarily wrong to say "eleven hundred" when referring to 1100?
- Using hundreds to express thousands: why, where, when?
The question title refers to expressing thousands using multiples of hundreds, like saying "twelve hundred" instead of "one thousand two hundred" This is somehow new to me I may have heard it, li
- What are the rules for pronunciation of years in English?
We pronounce 1923 as nineteen twenty-three; but 1900 as nineteen hundred Why isn't year 2000 pronounced as twenty hundred instead of two thousand? What are the rules for pronunciation of years in
- Commas in plurals of numbers (1000s vs. 1,000s) in web writing
Would I use a comma within the number 1,000 when expressing it as a plural? For example: The laboratory contained 100s or even 1,000s of rats vs The laboratory contained 100s or even 1000s of
- How did *Old* English transform into *Middle* English so quickly?
The Wessex standard abruptly lost its status after the conquest; from about 1100 to 1400, there was no standard written English; texts from that time basically show the language as the authors spoke it
- single word requests - Precise names for parts of a day - English . . .
The time after 12 00 and 15 00 - afternoon; 12 00 exactly is NOON - meal after 1100 until 1500 is lunch) Any thing, i e , tea coffee any beaverage except hard drinks with snacks - tea (before 5 00 pm)
- Correct usage of lbs. as in pounds of weight
Assuming it's not casual usage, I'd recommend "All items over five pounds are excluded," instead Most style guided recommend spelling out numbers of ten or less, and in such a case I'd spell out the unit, too
- What does : ca. 1828 mean? ca. before a date? [closed]
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