Hi from Argentina! Very useful video, I'm studying english language, although I'll be starting 6th year upper level, sometimes Im not sure the correct way to say dates or years. Thank you so much 😃👍👍👍
i from chile Very useful video, I'm studying english language, although I'll be starting 6th year upper level, sometimes Im not sure the correct way to say dates or years. Thank you so much
Please can you tell mi how to say year 1004 ? Is it ten O 4 or one thousand and four? How to say Years 1010 or 1111, is it eleven eleven, ten ten? How to say year that is less than thousand- 500, 101, or 222 ? Thank you!
Hello +Woodward English , it is possible "twenty hundred" and "twenty O four" for 2000 and 2004 , that just Americans felt and decreted that is was bizarre to say "twenty hundred". As in british English it is said this wayn and 100 year is said "ten O", that's why the TV serial is called "Hawai Five O" (for 50).
I have never heard "twenty hundred" and "twenty O four" for 2000 and 2004. It doesn't sound right. YES you may here "fifteen hundred" and "twelve hundred" etc. used and YES, they are accepted. Just not for the two thousand.
Thank you very much for the video! I've often heard the years of the first decade after 2000 pronounced without AND. Would it be considered non-standard in British English?
Yes, I have heard of twenty o four though it is not common. The other way is more common. Woodward is just my surname. The origin, as happens with many surnames, comes from professions in the middle ages (e.g Smith, Baker, Potter, etc.). In this case it was the name given to the "protector of the wood/forest". The first mention of the surname Woodward comes from around 1200... or something like that. :)
Would it be ok to say the full Two Thousand way up until 2019 then switch over to Twenty in 2020 and say it like that for the rest of the century because that's the way I think I'm going to say it for the next 2 years of this decade
@@WoodwardEnglish +Monirul Juamadar For Americans it's not correct. This is a regular rule , why just a change for years 2000 and 2010, because American English is influential. If it said "Nineteen hundred" , 2000 can be said "Twenty hundred". So that means AD 10 year is "One O". This seems strange but it's faster and easier to say quickly in two parts than "Two thousand and twelve" for "Twenty Twelve" (2012). Then if you want to follow the American way , yes it's "Two thousand year", "Two thousand and twelve" ... etc.
I once heard that in the German language they don’t say the year divided into its two parts and they would say for example nineteen hundred and eighty seven for 1987 but two thousand and twenty for 2020, is that right?
You forgot to mention that you can shorten years by using the last 2 digits for example: 1986 could be shortened by saying 86 2001 could be shortened by saying oh one 2016 could be shortened by saying 16
Agree in most of them, except (2001 - 2009) "Two thousand one - two thousand nine" (without the "and" sounds wrong and too wordy). 2010 "twenty ten" and from this last one until 2099 "twenty ninety-nine" divided in two. From (2010 - 2019) only correct way is divided by two "twenty ten - twenty nineteen". I was born in nineteen ninety-eight the best year :D
During those years, especially during the first part of that decade, I heard both ways for 2010-2019. Some regions preferred one version instead of the other. Remember, there are regional differences in English. NOW... most people divide those years in two. (I have been teaching English one year more than you have been alive... since 1997!!!) ;)
@@WoodwardEnglish It's not pronounced "two thousand AND five" or "two thousand and eight." That is grammatically incorrect. It's quite literally pronounce "two thousand five" or "nineteen eighty four". Nobody pronounces it "nineteen and eighty four."
What happens if you say years like after 2020 the full way as for example for 2042 "Two Thousand and Forty Two" instead of "Twenty Forty Two"? because the "Two Thousand and X" thing has lasted well into the teens and I'm thinking of saying it that way for all the years 2000-2099?
