Saying Numbers
Years up to 1999: split into two pairs. "1985" = "nineteen eighty-five". "1900" = "nineteen hundred". From 2000: "2000" = "two thousand"; "2005" = "two thousand and five" (British) or "twenty oh five" (informal). From 2010: both styles used: "2019" = "twenty nineteen" or "two thousand and nineteen". Dates: "15 March" = "the fifteenth of March" (British) or "March fifteenth" (American).
Years up to 1999: split into two pairs. "1985" = "nineteen eighty-five". "1900" = "nineteen hundred". From 2000: "2000" = "two thousand"; "2005" = "two thousand and five" (British) or "twenty oh five" (informal). From 2010: both styles used: "2019" = "twenty nineteen" or "two thousand and nineteen". Dates: "15 March" = "the fifteenth of March" (British) or "March fifteenth" (American).
Practice
How is the year 1776 read aloud?
The date 14 February is read as "theof February" in British English.
Put the words in the correct order to say the date "5 November" in British English: