Dates
See also: Calendar dateThere are a number of ways to read years. The following table offers a list of valid pronunciations and alternate pronunciations for any given year of the Gregorian calendar.
| Year | Most common pronunciation method | Alternative methods |
|---|---|---|
| 1 BC | (The year) One Before Christ (BC) | 1 before the Common era (BCE) |
| 1 | (The year) One | Anno Domini (AD) 1 1 of the Common era (CE) In the year of Our Lord 1 |
| 235 | Two thirty-five | Two-three-five Two hundred (and) thirty-five |
| 911 | Nine eleven | Nine-one-one Nine hundred (and) eleven |
| 999 | Nine ninety-nine | Nine-nine-nine Nine hundred (and) ninety-nine Triple nine |
| 1000 | One thousand | Ten hundred 1K Ten aught Ten oh |
| 1004 | One thousand (and) four | Ten oh-four |
| 1010 | Ten ten | One thousand (and) ten |
| 1050 | Ten fifty | One thousand (and) fifty |
| 1225 | Twelve twenty-five | One-two-two-five One thousand, two hundred (and) twenty-five Twelve-two-five |
| 1900 | Nineteen hundred | One thousand, nine hundred Nineteen aught |
| 1901 | Nineteen oh-one | Nineteen hundred (and) one One thousand, nine hundred (and) one Nineteen aught one |
| 1919 | Nineteen nineteen | Nineteen hundred (and) nineteen One thousand, nine hundred (and) nineteen |
| 1999 | Nineteen ninety-nine | Nineteen hundred (and) ninety-nine One thousand, nine hundred (and) ninety-nine |
| 2000 | Two thousand | Twenty hundred Two triple-oh Y2K |
| 2001 | Two thousand (and) one | Twenty oh-one Twenty hundred (and) one Two double-oh-one Two oh-oh-one |
| 2009 | Two thousand (and) nine | Twenty oh-nine Twenty hundred (and) nine Two double-oh-nine Two oh-oh-nine |
| 2010 | Two thousand (and) ten Twenty ten |
Twenty hundred (and) ten two-oh-one-oh |
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Famous quotes containing the word dates:
“Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.”
—Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965)
“What is most interesting and valuable in it, however, is not the materials for the history of Pontiac, or Braddock, or the Northwest, which it furnishes; not the annals of the country, but the natural facts, or perennials, which are ever without date. When out of history the truth shall be extracted, it will have shed its dates like withered leaves.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Dates are stupidly annoying—what we want is not dates but taste;Myet we are uncomfortable without them.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)