Arnold Zwicky’s post “Year names and number names” at the Language Log treats the pronunciation of numbers.
For me, this article is interesting for two reasons:
1) I’ve learned what to call the two different styles (with and without “and”):
b) juxtaposed reading, like “two thousand ten”
2) I’ve learned that juxtaposed readings (which I had regarded as wrong so far) are especially popular in the U.S., and Zwicky quotes some proof that he found in 2007 which showed that
The UK and Australia favour conjoined readings, and Zwicky even found texts that express “some actual hostility to the juxtaposed variants”.
Intriguing, this difference between “some hostility” and “some actual hostility” ;-)
Mr Spock would call it ^^ “Interesting.”
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