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How to say the number 92 (i.imgur.com)

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[–] someguy3@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (10 children)

Ow my brain.

Also funny because I had assumed English got the numbering system from German.

[–] krnpnk@feddit.de 9 points 2 years ago (8 children)

You probably did, but then you did the sensible thing and (mostly) changed it around. You can read some 19th century novels and find stuff like "I am two and twenty years old".

Mostly because it's still the old order for the teens. 1616 could be read as sixteen hundred sixteen, right?

[–] someguy3@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't think I've seen people read 1616 as sixteen hundred sixteen. You could read 1600 as sixteen hundred, but when there are numbers in the tens and ones spots I don't see anyone using it. The whole thing using sixteen-hundred is weird to me, it's one thousand six hundred sixteen.

[–] krnpnk@feddit.de 4 points 2 years ago

I've heard it lots of times (sometimes just as "sixteen sixteen") - mostly for years though.

And it seems like Wikipedia agrees:

In American usage, four-digit numbers are often named using multiples of "hundred" and combined with tens and ones: "eleven hundred three", "twelve hundred twenty-five", "forty-seven hundred forty-two", or "ninety-nine hundred ninety-nine".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_numerals)

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