Does the pronounciation of the dates always follow this model??
1900 => nineteen hundreds
1908 => nineteen O eight
1955 => nineteen fifty-five
2000 => two thousand
thanks
1900 => nineteen hundreds
1908 => nineteen O eight
1955 => nineteen fifty-five
2000 => two thousand
thanks
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1908 => nineteen O eight This is very common (the 0 is pronounced like the letter, not like the number.) But I've heard nineteen zero eight a few times, also.
(I'm in the US, and I think there may be other ways of referring to the 0. Someone may be able to add to this response.)
1955 => nineteen fifty-five yes, as far as I know
2000 => two thousand yes, as far as I know
I'll take advantage of this post to ask this:
Nineteen, fifteen, eighteen, etc. (19, 15, 18, etc.) - I know the stress is on "teen", nineTEEN, fifTEEN, eighTEEN, etc.
1998 - Nineteen ninety-eight
1960 - Nineteen sixty
1990 - Nineteen ninety
Where is the stress in dates? I think I've heard "NINEteen ninety-eight" (stress on NINE), but I'm not sure where the stress can be placed.
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Really? I stress the first syllable. All Germanic words in English stress the first syllable except prefixes such as be-.
I'm out of time and answers right now.
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These links might have some helpful information.
http://www.EnglishForward.com/English/FreeAudioSitesAndSoftware/bdnlw/Post.htm
1900 should be "nineteen-hundred" (or "nineteen-O-O"?) and 1901 should be "nineteen-O-one". Like you write, it is A model -- one model. Why should there be a special rule when the first digit is 2?
People just continued pronouncing the years after 2000 as "two-thousand-[whatever]", cause they didn't think much about it.
I don't think it's a big deal how people pronounce the first decade of the 2000s, but if we say "twenty-ten", and follow the model from there, it will save us all an enormous number of syllables uttered and listened to if we add them up.
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