In The Name Of Allah

Numbers

The proper pronunciation of numbers in English causes trouble to lots of people. Make sure you know how to pronounce the following properly:

• 12.4 (twelve point four)
• 2/3 (two thirds), 4/5 (four fifths), 7/12 (seven over twelve)
• 2² (two squared), 4³ (four cubed), 5⁹ (five to the power of nine)
• 67% (sixty-seven per cent)
• 6 m x 10 m (six metres by ten metres)

• My phone number is 70455. (seven o four double five)
• The city was founded in 1021. (ten twenty one)
  Shakespeare wrote Hamlet around 1600. (sixteen hundred)
  The company was established in 1901. (nineteen o one)
  Jack first visited Russia in 1993. (nineteen ninety-three)
  Poland joined the EU in 2004. (two thousand and four)
• My father was born during the World War II. ( world war two/, not world war the second)