On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 12:40:30AM -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote:
: For example,
:
: 1984 (Nineteen Eighty Four)
: 1066 and all that (Ten Sixty Six)
: 3001 (Three Thousand One)
: 2050 (Twenty Fifty)
: 2010 (Twenty Ten)
: 2001, A Space Odyssey (Two Thousand One)
You're missing the "and" from 3001 and 2001. I know Merkins often
leave it out, but a number of us always use it and feel it's wrong
without. :-)
Putting dialect aside, you may find that 2050 and possibly 2010 will
be said "two thousand (and) whatever".
The problem here is that there's no single way to spell out numbers in
English, so no single way to alphabetise. It's better to sort numbers
numerically, and then you only have to decide the order for negative
numbers.
-- Christopher Vance
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