Tuesday, June 21, 2016

usage - More than 9 hundred as hundreds?


In German, we often use "Elfhundert" (literally, "eleven hundred") for 1100 or "neunzehnhundert" ("nineteen hundred") for 1900; but is this correct in English?



Answer




Yes, people normally say


fifteen hundred instead of one thousand five hundred


and


nineteen ninety nine instead of one thousand nine hundred ninety nine


However, I hear a lot of people saying


two thousand fourteen instead of twenty fourteen


Probably because twenty fourteen just doesn't flow off the tongue as nicely as years back in the nineteen nineties


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