How to spell the year of 2000 and 2008?

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Anonymous

#240716 Wed, 28 Jun 06 05:35 AM

1.two thousand year ?

2.two thousand and eight year

two thousand of eight year ?

Anonymous

milky

#240726 Wed, 28 Jun 06 06:12 AM

Anonymous wrote:

How to spell the year of 2000 and 2008?

1.two thousand year ?

2.two thousand and eight year

or

two thousand of eight year ?

Either "two thousand" or "the year two thousand". Same with 2008.

milky

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Hume said that if we had perfect or complete descriptive knowledge of reality, we could not, by reasoning, derive a single valid "ought".

Rafijiang

#240765 Wed, 28 Jun 06 08:11 AM

one more query, it is right or not if we pronounce 2008 as "two thousand eight"? Or we should say two thousand and eight

Thanks.

Rafijiang

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stick to do it,you will succeed!

milky

#240779 Wed, 28 Jun 06 08:53 AM

Rafijiang wrote:

one more query, it is right or not if we pronounce 2008 as "two thousand eight"? Or we should say two thousand and eight

Thanks.

Usually, AE speakers use the one without "and".

milky

Grammar Geek

#240973 Wed, 28 Jun 06 08:23 PM

I think it's up to the speaker. I've heard it without the "and" more often, but certainly enough times with the "and" that it wouldn't make me take notice of something unusual. I've also heard "twenty-oh-eight." That one still does strike me as unusual, but not wrong.

As a matter of style, I can't think of why you would ever want to write out the year in words. Just write 2008.

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Barbara, who answers in American English.

Anonymous

#523922 Fri, 06 Jun 08 07:47 PM

You write out the year for formal announcements (graduations and weddings, etc.) My high schoolers' math book teaches you never put "and" between numbers. You would never say (or write) "The year we got married was 19 hundred "and" 88 (1988), so why would you say (or write) two thousand "and" eight. It's just two thousand eight. Simple.

Anonymous

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