Why is 2007 pronounced "two thousand AND seven" when 27 is pronounced "twenty seven" NOT "twenty and seven"?
Is it wrong to say "two thousand seven", the narrator on a documentary on the History channel kept saying, "two thousand seven" or "two thousand three".
So what is right?
2007-11-22 00:09:21 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Travel ➔ Africa & Middle East ➔ South Africa
I just read a book of old english history - around 1109 - and there they said for example "He or she is twenty and seven years old" so it means there was once a time when people spoke like that.
2007-11-22 00:59:30 · answer #1 · answered by Carpe Diem 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is a good question. I also often think when will we start referring to this century in the more conjoined way as we did the last one. Ie i was born in Nineteen hundred and seventy-nine would be a really old fashioned way of saying things- you would just say i was born in nineteen seventy-nine.
I wonder when we will start referring to this century in the same terms, you know i've never heard anybody calling this twenty oh seven, like we would have said nineteen oh seven.
Do you think maybe it will happen after it turns 2010, as two thousand and eleven, two thousand and twelve, two thousand and fifteen etc will just be too much of a mouthful?
2007-11-22 08:59:22 · answer #2 · answered by music_lovin_miss 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I suspect it's just a matter of tradition wherever you come from. Here in the UK we would tend to say Two thousand and seven, while in the States two thousand seven would appear more likely. I don't think that there is right or wrong here. Hope this helps.
2007-11-22 08:19:41 · answer #3 · answered by SKCave 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
In what year will we switch to saying "Twenty-whatever" just like we used to say "Nineteen-ninety-eight"? Twenty-ten?
Why do Americans say a date in this order: Month, Day, Year?
If it wasn't such a famous date, most English speaking people outside of North America would have assumed that "Nine-Eleven" is the 9th of November.
Its much more logical to go from smaller "units" to larger in order - Day, Month, Year.
But government and bank forms require Year, Month, Day - which is just unnatural!
2007-11-22 08:58:10 · answer #4 · answered by Roger C 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
For instance we say one thousand two hundred and the Americans say twelve hundred.Same thing!
2007-11-22 09:04:21 · answer #5 · answered by T.I 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The dude was just lazy to say AND....
Heres another silly question , why do we say 21 is (twenty-one)
but 11 is Eleven and not Ten-ty-one or 12(twelve )is ten-ty-two....you get my drift....
2007-11-22 08:34:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Two thousand and seven is correct!
C'est la vie!
2007-11-22 16:47:23 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I say "twenty-oh-seven."
2007-11-22 08:15:45 · answer #8 · answered by nam_miles 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because we can actualy count !
2007-11-22 12:44:42 · answer #9 · answered by De La Rey 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋