DATES IN ENGLISH
GENERAL DATES:
We write: 17 June 2010 or 17th June 1989
We say: "June the seventeenth, nineteen eighty-nine" & "The seventeenth of June, nineteen eighty-nine"
GENERAL YEARS
1900 "nineteen hundred"
1905 "nineteen hundred and five" or "nineteen hundred 0 five
1910 - nineteen ten" (you can also say "nineteen hundred and ten but it's not common)
1945 "nineteen forty-five"
1996 'nineteen ninety-six
2000 "two thousand"
2003 "two thousand and three"
2010 "twenty-ten" (2011 "twenty-eleven" etc.)
BC-before Christ
AD-Anno Domini
DECADES:
...the (1960s) '60s - "the (nineteen) sixties"
...the (2000s) '00s "the thousands" or "the noughties
CENTURIES
...the 1900s "the nineteen hundreds"
...the 4th century "the fourth century"
...the 20h century "the twentieth century"
ON/IN:
ON: days & dates
We write: He was born on 2nd March 1960
We say: "He was borm on the 2nd of May nineteen sixty"
IN: months, seasons, years, decades, centur
"My birthday is in January not in summer
"He was born in 1985 and grew up in the
nineteenth"
