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Anonymous  #409995  Mon, 27 Aug 07 01:25 PM

I have a problem with numbers, when you write *** e.g. 2010 with which numbers would you say something like twenty hundred and ten and with which ones would you say someting similar to two thousand and ten?? There is a rule that I have already forgotten...

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Yankee  #410023  Mon, 27 Aug 07 02:55 PM

For the number 2010, I would expect people to say "two thousand (and) ten" when referring to an amount of something.
If 2010 is a year or a house number, for example, you might also hear "twenty ten".

I would say that the word hundred is used instead of thousand only when the number is less than two thousand, and particularly when the number ends with '00'.  For example:

1910 = one thousand nine hundred (and) ten  -OR-  nineteen ten  -OR-  nineteen hundred (and) ten
1400 = one thousand four hundred  -OR-  fourteen hundred

  
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Bokeh  #410066  Mon, 27 Aug 07 04:23 PM
Only talk in hundreds when the hundreds are not divisible by 10.

7400 --> Seventy four hundred.
3000 --> Three thousand (not thirty hundred).

  
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Anonymous  #410148  Mon, 27 Aug 07 07:17 PM

Bokeh, you're probably right, thanks to both! Now I learnt the trick!

  
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