- Is it improper English to read the number 1100 as eleven hundred?
If bins have 450, 1,100, 2,000, and 5,700 items, they might be read as "four hundred fifty, eleven hundred, two thousand, and fifty-seven hundred" If, however, the quantities had been 453, 1,100, 2,017, and 5,706, then they should be read as "four hundred fifty-three, one thousand one hundred, two thousand seventeen, and five thousand seven
- Using hundreds to express thousands: why, where, when?
It's common for quantities between 1100 and 1900 but very rare for quantities over 2000, for instance "thirty one hundred" for 3100 One reason for its use, to me, is when making comparisons between quantities just below and just above the one thousand mark
- single word requests - Precise names for parts of a day - English . . .
The time before 12 00 - morning; the meal is called breakfast (taken before 1100, after that - lunch) The time after 12 00 and 15 00 - afternoon; 12 00 exactly is NOON - meal after 1100 until 1500 is lunch) Any thing, i e , tea coffee any beaverage except hard drinks with snacks - tea (before 5 00 pm)
- etymology - What was the first use of the saying, You miss 100% of the . . .
Wayne Gretzky appears to be the earliest attributed source of this particular expression, although two older sports-related expression say much the same thing: "You can't score if you don't shoot" and "You can't hit the ball if you don't swing "
- How did *Old* English transform into *Middle* English so quickly?
The Wessex standard abruptly lost its status after the conquest; from about 1100 to 1400, there was no standard written English; texts from that time basically show the language as the authors spoke it
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- Commas in plurals of numbers (1000s vs. 1,000s) in web writing
and, since your case isn’t one of the listed exceptions, it looks like they specify that you should use the comma However, I noticed that paragraph 12 9(l), “Measurement and time” “Percentage” (on page 287) says you can use either “a 1,100-percent increase” or “an 1100-percent increase ” They don’t explain this; I
- What does : ca. 1828 mean? ca. before a date? [closed]
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