Hello !

I would like to know how you say the date in English, especially "2007". Is it :
- two thousand and seven ?
- two thousand seven ?
or something else ?

Thank you !

two thousand seven... dos mil siete

Either is acceptable, if you ask me. They both mean the same thing...

Two thousand and seven.

I think the main difference is between the British & Americans. Americans with pronounce a date "eighteenth June two thousand seven (or whatever)" and the British would say "eighteenth of June two thousand and seven". I guess it's cultural differences really.

As for me, I say :
Monday, the eighteenth of June two thousand and seven.
Is this grammatically correct ?

Thank you !

I say: Two thousand seven.

Yes

Americans are just lazy. I, too, say "two thousand seven" (no "and").

That's what I'd say too - always use the 'and'

I say "Two thousand seven" as well.

No 'and' for me. Not that I personally find anything wrong with using 'and', but I've always learned that it is 'incorrect'. I often throw it in on larger numbers as well, but not for years.

'2007' where's the 'and' in that number

June 2, 2007 = June second, two thousand seven

Wait, what?

What I've been taught is you throw in "and" if there's a decimal.

2007
Two thousand seven.

2007.5
Two thousand seven and five tenths.

I say 'two thousand seven'.

Five tenths? I'd just call that a half

I always say two thousand and seven.

Yeah same here. "2007.5" would be two thousand and seven and a half.

The whole 'and' thing only works for so long (for those who use it).
Two thousand and seven
Two thousand and eight
Two thousand and nine
Two thousand and ten??
Two thousand and seventeen??
Two thousand and fifty??

What's wrong with those? It is accurate.

I say "twenty o seven."

As for me, I say: "Twenty o seven". It's all correct.

I vary between the two, depending what and how i'm talking about

but mostly i use two thousand and seven

Two thousand and seven like most British people say. Also, we're better than everyone else so it must be right!

Yep, exactly how I say it too.

Looks like it's AND for the Brits, and no AND for the Yanks.

The Yanks must be trained not to use the and because if we write out the and within our checks (cheques) to the bank, anything after the "and" becomes change rather than dollar amounts. It's a necessity to be taught that way for us.

...in informal conversations, we will switch between the two. We are taught that "Two Thousand Seven" is correct, though we will still occasionally say "Two Thousand and Seven". Even I slip up sometimes.

I say two thousand seven.

I was always taught that you don't say "and" unless there is a decimal point. Like I would say "two hundred and 7 tenths" for 200.7 as an example.

I would say "two hundred and 7 tenths" for that, but whatever floats your boat

I'm still writing 2006 on things...

You know what I mean

I say "two thousand and seven". I'd either say "two thousand and seven and a half" or "two thousand and seven point five". For money, "two thousand and twelve pounds and thirteen pence".

I've never heard of people not using the "and" before.. but then again I don't talk to any Americans offline.

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In Britain, once we reach 2010, we will pronounce it "Twenty Ten".

When referring to a year like 1905, we say:

Nineteen O Five.

Strangely, we do too. In fact, for all numbers up to 'twenty ...' we wouldn't use 'and'. Nineteen Eighty-Nine. Thirteen O Eight. But when it got to 2000 we started putting and in, like Two Thousand and Seven. But come Two Thousand and Ten, we'll stop, because the next year will be Twenty Eleven (although that sounds strange to me, I'll probably still say Two Thousand and Eleven).

That's only for years though. Saying 1989 the number, we'd say One Thousand and Eighty Nine.

I'm trying to figure out exactly what our rule is on inserting 'and', and I have no idea what it is. We just somehow all know what sounds right to us

We'd say, "One Thousand Nine Hundred Eighty Nine," but whatever works for you... (In all honesty, in referring to a number and not a year we'd say "... and eighty nine", but the proper way is without the 'and'.)