Rosso Wrote:
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> Being British,
> I thought she was "nine nine nine", but I get the
> impression that to Americans she is "nine
> ninety-nine" which is correct?
We tend to think in terms of "nine (hundred) ninety-nine." To my 72-year-old ears and brain, saying each number separately is strange and odd.
I will say that the street address that my folks had from my high school years to their death was "twenty-two, fifty-four" (2254). The earlier house was "Twenty-seven, seventeen" (2717).
My post office box is "Thirty-twelve" (3012). all the boxes at the particular post office are numbered 30xx. When I have to ask for an oversize parcel, I will say "thirty-twelve" (but most of the time the regular clerk in the small office connects my face with the box number). A few times I've had to re-say it as "three-zero-one-two" for a substitute clerk.
Now my home address is a five digit number -- 15210. I will say it as "fifteen, two, ten."
Brian Norden
a Southern Californian by birth and current residence with Iowa and Nebraska parents.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/13/2021 04:24PM by Brian Norden.