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How to say numbers
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And
In British English, and is used before the last word which may be simple as in:
105 (read: a hundred and five);
101st (read: one hundred and first);
or a composite as in:
786 (read: seven hundred and eighty-six);
6, 234 (read: six thousand two hundred and thirty-four).
A and one
The words hundred, thousand and million can be used in the singular with a or one, but not alone. A is more common in an informal style, one is used when people are speaking more precisely. Compare:
I want to live for a hundred years.
The journey took exactly one hundred days.
I’ve saved a thousand pounds.
Pay the inspector of taxes one thousand pounds only (on a cheque).
At the beginning of a number only a is used. Compare:
146 (read: a hundred and forty-six)
3,146 (read: three thousand, one hundred and forty-six)
They say ‘ a thousad ’ for the ‘round number 1,000’, and before and, but they say ‘ one thousand’ before a number of hundreds. Compare:
1,000 (read: a thousand)
1,031 (read: a thousand and thirty-one);
1,100 (read: one thousand, one hundred )
1, 498 (read: one thousand, four hundred and ninety-eight).
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