SAYING NUMBERS

OH, ZERO, LOVE, NOUGHT, NIL.

The above are all ways of saying 0 in English.

We say oh	· after a decimal point · in telephone numbers · in bus numbers · in hotel room numbers · in years
We say nought	· before the decimal point
We say zero	· for the number · for temperature
We say nil	· in football scores
We say love	· in tennis

DECIMAL POINT

In English, we use a point (.) and not a comma (,) for decimals. We use commas in figures only when writing thousands.

10,001 is ten thousand and one.

10.001 is ten point oh oh one.

In English all the numbers after a decimal point are read separately:

10.66

ten point six six

NOT ten point sixty six

You will also hear people say:

0.05

zero point oh five

OR oh point oh five

But if the number after the decimal point is a unit of money, it is read like a normal number:

$14.60 fourteen dollars sixty

If you do business over the phone, say nought point five three seven (0.537) and NOT nought point five hundred thirty seven. If the listener missed the word point, you might lose a lot of money.

Say the digits separately after the point.

PER CENT

The stress is on the cent of per cent five percent

HUNDREDS, THOUSANDS, AND MILLIONS

In British English you hear	a hundred and twenty three.
In American English you usually hear	a hundred twenty three.
The number 1,999 is said	one thousand nine hundred and ninety nine.
The year 1999 is said	nineteen ninety nine.
The year 2000 is said	the year two thousand.
The year 2001 is said	two thousand and one.
The year 2015 is said	two thousand and fifteen OR twenty fifteen.

It is likely that different people will refer to the early years of the 21^st century in different ways. Remember that the year 1066 is always referred to as ten sixty six - not one thousand and sixty six.

1,000,000	is a million OR ten to the power six (10⁶).
1,000,000,000	is a billion OR ten to the power nine (10⁹).

This is now common usage. In British English a billion used to be ten to the power twelve (10¹²), but now everyone has accepted the current American usage.

FRACTIONS

Fractions are mostly like ordinal numbers (fifth, sixth etc.)

a third

a fifth

a sixth

Notice, however, the following:

a half	a quarter	three quarters
three and a half	two and three quarters

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