1.

If a number is in the range 21 to 99, and

the second digit is not zero, we should write the number as two words separated by a hyphen:

Cardinal Numbers 0 zero, oh, 26 twenty-six nought, nil, love, 27 twenty-seven nothing 28 twenty-eight 1 one 29 twenty-nine 2 two 30 thirty 3 three 40 forty (no "u") 4 four 50 fifty 5 five 60 sixty 6 six 70 seventy 7 seven 80 eighty 8 eight 90 ninety 9 nine 100 a/one hundred 10 ten 101 a hundred and one 11 eleven 110 a hundred and ten 12 twelve 120 a hundred and twenty 13 thirteen 200 two hundred 14 fourteen 1,000 a/one thousand 15 fifteen 1,001 a thousand and one 16 sixteen 1,010 a thousand and ten 17 seventeen 2,000 two thousand 18 eighteen 10,000 ten thousand 19 nineteen 11,000 eleven thousand 20 twenty 100,000 a/one hundred 21Years We normally say thousand parts. In the case of twenty-one a year in two 22years ending in "00", we say the second part in "hundred": twenty-two 1,000,000 a/one million 23 1978 nineteen seventy-eight two million twenty-three 2,000,000 24 twenty-four 1,000,000,000 a/one billion 1706 seventeen 25 twenty-five
hundred and six (or 'seventeen oh six') 1900 nineteen hundred There are two ways of saying years ending in "01" to "09" before 2000.

56
seven

fifty-six

47

forty-

2. Numbers over 100 are generally written in figures. If you say them aloud or want to write them in words rather than figures you put 'and' in front of the number expressed by the last two figures. For example:

Eg.

505
Note:

five hundred and five

The British use 'and' before tens and ones but the Americans usually leave the 'and' out.

Eg. 602 six hundred and two (Am E: six hundred two) 3. Numbers between 1000 and 1,000,000
are usually said or written in words as:

one thousand, seven hundred and four (Am E: one thousand, seven hundred four) four thousand, three hundred and sixty-five (Am E: four thousand, three hundred sixty-five) 4. Four-figure numbers ending in 00 can
also be said or written as a number of hundreds.

1,704

4,365

1901 nineteen oh one or nineteen hundred and one 2000 two

thousand

Eg.

1900

nineteen hundred

5. Expressing millions.

2009 two thousand and nine

thousand nine).
said as normal

(AmE: two

Post-2010 dates are often

2010

Eg. 2,572,285 two million five hundred (and) seventy-two thousand two hundred (and)eighty-five Note: AmE: a thousand million = a billion BrE: a thousand million = milliard. Note: no final S after dozen, hundred,
thousand, million and billion

would be twenty ten

We say each figure separately:

561 6603