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It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website. Ask Question. Asked 10 years, 11 months ago. Active 1 year, 7 months ago. Viewed 79k times. Improve this question. Lauren 1 1 gold badge 6 6 silver badges 11 11 bronze badges. Mehper C. Palavuzlar Mehper C.
Palavuzlar I love that song. It reminds me my youth ; — Mehper C. The particular case of vs. When naming numbers, "nineteen hundred" is common, and "twenty hundred" is almost never used. Edit: "Ten hundred" is actually used some, maybe its simply a number-of-syllables thing. Ten hundred and twenty hundred are only used for military time, as far as I know.
Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. For one thing, "two thousand" is shorter to say than "twenty hundred". Improve this answer. Maggyero 8 8 bronze badges. NOte that "twenty one" parallel with "twenty ten" was not available because of the number "twenty-one". But this doesn't account for why "twenty oh one" was not popular. I wouldn't consider "nineteen oh one" correct for , even if it is shorter. It's a zero '0' , not the letter 'O'. I would consider "nineteen hundred one" correct.
Paul: people say "oh" for zero all the time. Maggyero the short answer is: whatever is shortest, and sounds most like a number. So "Two thousand seven" is the same number of syllables as "Twenty oh seven". I never heard anyone say "Twenty oh" for the years Likewise, "six hundred" but "six oh one" for years less than Show 4 more comments. PyroTyger PyroTyger 3, 1 1 gold badge 18 18 silver badges 24 24 bronze badges.
I've only heard said as twenty-twelve , but I've heard as both two thousand eleven and as twenty-eleven. So yeah, we're moving towards the grouping-by-two-digits method again.
Martha: I wonder if the switch to "twenty-X" is delayed from "twenty-ten" because for the past 10 years people have been saying "two-thousand-X" and they are used to saying that. I bet that 20 years from now nobody will still say "two-thousand eleven" — Mr. Stephen Phillips Stephen Phillips 49 1 1 bronze badge.
Nav Nav 2 2 gold badges 3 3 silver badges 14 14 bronze badges. I tend to agree. One year is left.
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