British Numbers confuse Americans - Numberphile
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Two Americans living in England discuss the numeric nuances which cause them problems.
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000 is pronounced: "James Bond minus seven".
I thought it'd be: "tripleorgasm"
Here in Australia, its called: "you f*cked up mayte, call the ambo!"
The Lennipede Accurate representation
Bunker Boy Gaming xmdndn
Archie Kerr you don't know maths do you?
CGP grey with a mouth will haunt my dreams...
what about him without glasses
[screams in Russian] screams in russian
@@doornob7859 Yeah that's me
Wth
@@Gayd1 what
All I can imagine now is Americans calling James Bond zero zero seven instead of double 'oh' seven... 😂
That’s how we say it in French 😅
I think in certain cases, regarding literary flow, we use 'double-oh'.
@@mica91700 Same in Spanish
@@mica91700 what are you talking about? W in french literally means double V so you can’t say that using double isn’t part of your vocabulary 😂
@@LAGxZombified Mica is saying that 007 is said zero zero seven, in French . It's the same in Swedish and apparently in Spanish too. I guess British english are the odd language here.
We got the word "double" btw, just don't use it the way brits do.
I get thrown when someone reads my phone number back to me and they say it in a different pattern I haven’t a clue if it’s right.
So do I, they’ll read it back in a weird pattern and I’m like ‘yeah that’ll do, no idea’ haha
If you're stuck around at home, make new friends on the telephone!
Oh, eight, nine, eight, double five, double oh, double five..... CHATBACK!!
Like when I say it 881-961 and someone repeats 88-19-61, I am completely thrown off hehehe
I have repeating digits in my number. It's fun to say them out of cadence.
@@KC9UDX yeah I have 3 doubles at the start of mine, then 4 at the end. When people say "your number ends with the 3 digits ###?" it doesn't sound right at all.
Bit late, but as a Brit I can confirm we use ‘triple’ for phone numbers.
Thank you!!!
I mainly hear treble rather that triple. Maybe its just a southern England thing
Lucas Davidoff
I’m from Surrey and hear “triple” a lot more than “treble” (in fact, I don’t think I’ve ever heard treble used for a phone number by one of my mates)
But there's always a hesitation before saying triple.
from Kent. I often hear Treble.
000 is said "oh zero nought"... Obviously.
What about none zero nought I say that too
In America it's ought oh zilch
Zero naught zero sounds like a title of an intrigue or action book
zip nada naught
Just...no
You do hear 000 as “triple”, however I think 0000 wouldn’t be “quadruple”, but double 0 double 0
quadruple 0 would probably be slower to say than any other combo...
Just reminds me of childline. Oh eight hundred double one double one.
I've heard "Quad" rather then "quadruple" (eg 4444 as quad 4) a few times but it's pretty rare.
I feel like I say “treble” not “triple”.
Might be a South-London thing 😂
@@olliemh2282 say treble here too and I live in the east of England
In recommended nearly 8 years later huh
Never occurred to me Americans don't say 'and' in say, 2001
‘And’ separates the number from the decimal: 2001.1 is two-thousand one, and one tenth.
I'm american and I say 2001 like two thousand and one
@@myownlittlworld9427 never heard that in America.. always seen the ad
@@jamesyork5796 I had several teachers who drilled into my head that "and" in a number means a decimal. I can usually understand what others mean and prefer to use "point" myself to be clear, but I read decimals to myself as "and".
It depends on the region and your age, but I was actually taught not to say “and” in school as a child.
It's so interesting to hear a native born American speaking with a weirdly half-english accent lol
*_tequilyps_*
I do not hear any accent 🧐
@Spencer Poe That way of speaking is called the Transatlantic accent. If you're curious.
CGP Grey, in one of his Q&A videos, talks about the tendency of Americans living in England to pick up the weird half-english accent, and says he purposefully avoids falling into that
They sound very American to me
@@maplesyrup8297 sharper consonants and atypical American vowels. Specifically O's.
I always give my number out in hexadecimal. Nobody has ever called me.
Is your number 0000000003 ?
Do you treat your phone number as a single number in trillions or billions or do you treat it as each separate numbers
If its the latter then there are other reasons you dont receive a call from anyone
@@13mudit 🤔🤔 explain?
@@htcmlcrip i meant that for eg if the number was 123, you could read it as one-two-three or as one hundred and twenty three. In a similar way if phone numbers are read as indivisual digits(which they usually are) then it doesnt matter whether they are in hexadecimal or not
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"It's easier to think in amounts of hundreds"
That's basically what the whole world have been saying about metric system
Only people who are accustomed to counting with their fingers and toes.
Else, 2s, 4s, 8s, 12s, 16s, 32s, 64s, 128s are better.
@@KC9UDX There are 10 kinds of people in this world. Those that understand binary, and those that don’t. 😉
Fifty three hundred? Why not just go the whole hog, and say five hundred and thirty tens?
@@g4dget that's literally what we do minus the tens... 530 is spoken as five hundred and thirty
@@lividtaffy7411 Though that would actually be 500.30 according to how I was taught math. Our teacher made it a point that 530 is pronounced five hundred thirty with no and.
I’ve never heard anyone say they’re from “downstate NY”
There's a few places where I imagine someone would want to specify they're from "downstate," so tbh it's not even that far fetched.
I'm thinking around and below Poughkeepsie?
@@epistax4 maybe however I did live in Wapp Falls for a little bit and don’t remember ever hearing “downstate”
What the heck is downstate New York? I mean it sorta makes sense, but it sounds so strange.
Having talked to New Yorkers from around the state the consensus we came to was north of Albany is upstate and south of Albany is down. With areas like Columbia or dutchess county being able to he mid state if they really want
5300?
Do you mean _Four Thousand Thirteen Hundred?_
No. Its thirfive hundred
Evil Paragon 2 who? What? Where?
Evil Paragon 2 hehe nice on
Fifty Three double o/zero
It's 5 thrice O O
When I am counting seconds,
I just wait a second before saying the next number.
me too
+Matthew Brough Is it common in the UK to count seconds with words like piccadilly between the numbers?
TheThomson94 no
+Matthew Brough ayyyy
No
And how "0" can be either nil, oh, nought, or zero.. depending on the situation
Love
@@Stegibbon oh yeah haha but only in tennis 🎾
@@CptDangernoodle yeah more a French thing. Though they do zero and nil too I think.
@@00uk919 I hear this being used in maths and sciences.
@@00uk919 like 0.5, nought point five
Funny thing is about ''british ways'' are that it varies a crazy amount from one place to another. Some things are accurate but others are widely incorrect for a massive % of Brits.
If you go like 2 towns from where you live they'll probably have a different accent in England anyway
@Harry Butler another thing is probably having tea. In some parts you get a cup of tea in others a full meal
Even moreso that for the US, it's a MASSIVE country with each state being almost akin to it's own country in terms of culture, language, nationality makeup, history, just everything. I'm sure even things mentioned in this video aren't true everywhere here, let along any other generalization. Even breaking things up into general categories of "The West, The Midwest, The South, and The East" doesn't always work.
It's the same way for American number systems. 2 massive generalizations.
And not just with numbers but with pretty much everything. They intentionally make things more complicated than they need to be and sometimes will change "their way" just for the sake of doing it differently from America. For example, "soccer" as a term originated in the UK. I couldn't tell you what logic they gave upon switching to calling it football but it's ridiculous that they criticize Americans for calling it by the term the UK came up with in the first place.
Fully animated and lip-synced CGP Grey is really weird.
it's not even lip synced, its just like 5 different mouth shapes randomly cycling through whenever he's talking
big dingus it is lip synced, play the speed as slow
Wattakron Saisombat nope it still doesn’t work
agree I
Woah. Just checked back in on this.
The odd thing is that we say "zero", "O" and "Nought" in different circumstances. So, "Nought point five", "Zero degrees", "007"
True
we also say “o” in american english to say 0. usually when a singular zero exists in a long string of numbers, me personally i know i say “o” depending on context but im not self-aware of the precise “rubric” on when i use “o” instead of zero.
Dont forget about nil!
I literally say zero and O in the same phone numbers.
@@estergrant6713 I'm British and have used "o" for zero, but I now have a career in enforcement where it is important to get number plates and vin numbers correct. I now try to avoid doing so, using zero for "0" and Oscar for "o".
Ah, you didn't even mention dates! The bain of every computer literate person where software/websites insist on using the American date system. Does my head in.
That's because if you go year/month/day when you sort files by date they all end up in order of when they occurred, from the start of the year to the end of the year. If you sorted everything by year/day/month files would get jumbled around and something saved on the 1st of January would be followed by the 1st of February, 1st if March, etc. The English way is actually a pretty poor way to go about dates
@@mattlock256 computers are new dates are old
@@bluesz1bluesz17 yeah but I was explaining why software/websites use the American way over others
But isn't the American way month/day/year? Cause that's screwed up. In that sense, the British way (day/month/year) makes more sense to me. But the best is indeed year/month/day, especially for files in a computer.
@@mattlock256 computers do that in general there always set to US English when you buy them
"I don't think hundred pound notes exist" They do but not in England, they are definitely given in Scotland due to slight separation of currency even though its still legal tender in England.
imagine trying to spend it in your corner shop though you would get laughed out
It might be legal tender but many shops/ pubs refuse them as it's quite common for them to be forgeries when in England (unless it literally comes from a Scottish tourist). That's what my manager told me when I was told not to take Scottish notes when working the bar
@@lolaharwood4702 many shops have the right to refuse them, and they do
@@eleanormason2647 Yea, the north is more accepting of it whereas the south pretty much doesn't accept it. i work as a cashier getting a 50 is pain as it i so people if you get a 50 please break it down at a bank
@@user-iq8qt4pi1r yeah, fifty pound notes or Scottish notes generally aren't accepted and I think that's due to the fraud risk. All fifties get the pen test
I never bothered counting seconds... I just pulled the pin and threw the grenade. It's much safer that way.
safer for who?
*whom
Safer for the Yeetor or the Yeetee?
@@Chicomacheeno Ross is that you?
DananaBanana, sorry no. Does Ross say ‘whom’ a lot? lol
In Italy, when digit X repeats Y times, we say "Y X", so actually "two, three,...", not "double, triple,...".
Which is absolutely the worst thing to do.
Like, if I say:
"two five four one",
I could independently mean one of the following (it only depends on the tone used while I pronounce the numbers):
- 2541;
- 5541;
- 551111;
- 2444441;
- 251111.
I assume the key is in the timing, probably almost no gap. E.g. a b y-x
That's insane. :D
@@martinhawes5647 that's it. Still, sometimes there are misunderstandings.
here in Brazil too. we just put the number in plural, but is confusing as well. like "two ones" when is 11
Haha that is so funny
in the UK the odd door numbers are on one side and even on the other, sometimes if there's flats down one side and not the other this can mess with the numbers
It's that way in America too, if you're driving down a street one side has odd houses and the other has evens
@@novatheenby8779 is it just me or does the term numberphile sound like someone who touches number's in their special place
not in a cul-de-sac though :)
Oh, and the "one" thing, is from the association of the "terrace end", or "corner plot" on a road being the larger, more expensive, big building. One would usually also be on the end closer to town centre, making it more appealing to some, especially on long roads, with most people walking a lot of places in the UK. The other thing with that "one tower bridge", I don't know if it's always this, but you can name a building anything, but you can't change the number. So "One Tower Bridge" might actually be a different building from the number 1 on the road it resides, distinguished by spelling the word out, and to get the luxury association.
As a British kid I always thought it was “1 Mrs Sippy, 2 Mrs Sippy” lol
You’re probably not just thinking that! I can clearly remember my teachers writing that out in primary school so maybe it’s uncommon but not unheard of.
@@hacefrio1695 ah! Maybe a country wide mishearing then!
For counting it doesn't matter i guess. Go mrs Sippy!
Woah! It’s ‘Mrs Sippy’? I thought it was ‘1 Mississippi’
@@ebl36 it is! I was just 4 year old from Oxford who’d never heard of Mississippi!
1
*awkward silence*
2
*awkward silence*
3
*awkward silence*
...
Edit: *still awkward silence*
Aaawwwwkwaaarrrd silence. A second is always longer than you think.
I just do it onnnnnne twooooo threeeeee fooooooour
It has the right cadence though 🤔
Glad to know my country isn't the only weird one out.
I tried this and timed it with a clock, "awkward silence" is too long. Saying it speedily took me 1.5 seconds per count and saying it normally took me 2 seconds per count.
In Denmark we say "en kasse øl" which translates to "one beer box"
I love this!
I wouldn't mind a beer box
Such a Danish thing to say
Och en cigg 😁
Why is this in everyone’s recommended years later
I'm just now seeing your comment and realizing this was posted in 2013. Yeah this popped up in my recommendeds too.
Yeah right? Especially for someone like me who watched it when it was first published too.
Idk how I end up here
In Australia we definitely use “triple” for three of the same number
000 is our emergency services number. It's important to be able to say it as simply and in as few syllables as possible.
One three double oh, six triple fiiiive, oh six.
Here in New Zealand our emergency number is 111 and we call it 'triple one'.
My phone number used to be “double five treble four” 🤣
@@LillianFinch that would have been a big time saver back in the rotary phone days 💡
8:52 Seeing CGP Grey without his glasses is just... just scary...
Cursed imagery
Tf just happened
I see the algorithm has recommended this video again in 2021
Same
same 😂
Same
Same
Is that 20 21, or two thousand and twenty one?
Going back on this channel really makes me realize how big the focus on numbers was instead of mathematics!
I'm not used to seeing CGP Grey with a mouth.
William1234567890123 Cook me too
*took
Or shoulders
I was more astounded when they took his glasses off and gave him EYES :O
CPC grey moves his hands often, just it's captured at about 1 frame every 2-5 seconds.
DO NOT GIVE THE BRITISH THE ADDRESS TO THE WHITE HOUSE
Don't you remember what happened?
What happened ?
@@desconocidoaxb6145 _things_
Started a bon fire let's say that
@@desconocidoaxb6145 A *small* fire
Remember, remember. Lol
"One Mississippi/Piccadilli" sounds rather like two seconds than one.
Believe me, when it's my kids playing hide and seek they sure are right on the one second mark (and maybe less...).
Definitely one second, not two
i think people usually say it a bit faster than in the video
I always treated it like a waltz. ONE-two-three, TWO-two-three, so ONE-missi-sippi, TWO-missi-sippi
@@josh.ryan. Well, if you pronounce the missi-sippi elements quick enough then that's it, but the way they are saying it in the video is too slow for one second.
To the Australians out there: one three double oh six triple five oh six
1300655506 or 300655506?
Would be the same in England but we’d say treble instead of triple
@@arsonasmr2387 First one
I should take the plunge it could change my life!
Why does America refuse to use the metric system?
If the US switches to the metric system, the terrorists win.
Because we prefer the system that we use. We don't have to know the metric system so why learn it.
Tim Satterwhite It's easier than you think and has been done successfully time and time again
Andres Velasco the US are the terrorists in case you didn't know
Tradition,and price of changing all the signs and other stuff like that.
In Italy we count seconds like this "1 mandolino 2 mandolino 3 maccheroni 4 mandolino 5 mandolino 6 maccheroni 7 mandolino..." and so on.
And, you guessed it, we do think in base 3. In fact our clocks have 3 hours on them. Also we cut pizza with spoons and we sleep standing up.
lol i don't understand this comment but its funny
Joe Alias mm
Mnbbhn
💯💮💮
Baby Daddy yes indeed
Mamma mia
What do those words mean in Italian?
64imma I chose the most generic stereotypical words, how could you not know them? I mean, in media italians are depicted like mandolin crafter who eat maccheroni all day long.
As a Brit, I’ve never seen a house number that has exceeded 150 in Britain.
I never thought to think about that but now I'm desperate to know what the highest house number in Britain is haha my old house was in the 170s (scotland) and I'm sure the road must have got beyond 200 because that house was only halfway down it
Meanwhile in Sherlock Holmes: 221b Baker street
I used to live at 190 but there was 200 houses on that very long street so it did start at 1
I live in the US and my house is 15068
Mine is 190
I don’t put any word in between, I just remember how long a second is and count up from 0. It’s always accurate too.
This is embarrassing, but I always thought it was 'One Mrs Zippy'. :(
Louis Cooper lol
Bwahahaha!!!! Omg, I think I just disturbed my neighbors! 😂
Louis Cooper omg that is so cute! one Mrs zippy! are you American?
Giselle Martinez Nope, I'm British. Probably explains it...
"One Mistress Zippy"?
How about the whole "Oh" vs. "Zero" thing? Does everyone use them interchangeably... or are certain areas confused by this? My favorite is abbreviating the years. Whether you say "zero" or "Oh," everyone will say "two thousand (and) nine" and then abbreviate to "oh nine."
Omg you watch numberplile?
MICHAELHICKOXFilms much more what about "zero" vs "not"
Elias Kechter Nought?
philip013 oh thats what they say ok yeah thats what i meant
sry im from germany and native russian so I didnt know exactly
MICHAELHICKOXFilms oh my goodness i cant believe you watch numberphile. you are awesome.
I'm American, and one of my childhood house had an address of 1. We were the only house on the street, though it was hardly a "street". The "street" was just our driveway. I can't tell you how many delivery people couldn't find it.
The seconds counting, in german we count „21, 22, 23,...“ its directly translated one twenty, two twenty, three twenty, etc. (ein-undzwanzig, zwei-undzwanzig, drei-undzwanzig)
One and twenty, two and twenty, three and twenty :)
In Dutch as well. Eenentwintig, tweeëntwintig, drieëntwintig
In Portuguese: vinte e um, vinte e dois, vinte e três... The decimal number is said first.
The title of this clip is misleading. This isn't about how numbers confuse Americans; more accurately, it shows how British numbering systems differ from American numbering systems.
000.
"Do i say triple zero?".
"Do i say zero, double zero?".
"Do i say double zero, zero?".
"Do i say zero, zero, zero?".
Me: "Yes".
You don't say any of that people usually say "oh" like the letter instead of zero like double-oh seven
I usually go oh, double oh. It's probably due to a personal preference.
In my country I’d say “nul nul nul”, but in England I might say double oh zero, just for fun.
You don’t even say zero, normally its said oh
@@skakdosmer double oh zero sounds like the secret agent 7 times before 007.
Someone had way too much fun animating all of CGPs parts lol
In Danish we count like "1 - case of beer - 2 - cases of beer - 3 cases of beer"...
Yeah... we have a problem.. we know.
Also our addresses are [Street] [Number], [Zip code] [City]
I'm British and I'm happy to help with your credit card number - could you give me the full long number, and also the code on the back too, just to make sure I get it right... 😉
Don't forget the expiry date!
Sweet man here’s mine so it goes
1234567891012
And then that lil code yah
131
Thanks in advance.
@@chebic5095 the scary part is that eventuañy that gonna be a real credit card number
@@urielantoniobarcelosavenda780 no because credit card numbers either start with a 4 or a 5
@@HayleyAnjuna eventually there will be soooooooo many humans that a credit card will need to start with 1
I’m English and I would say triple zero
I am not english and I approve this message
Yeah, me too.
Sophia Martinez same
Or treble zero
I'm not english, but I was taught british english in school and I'd say triple oh. I was taught to say oh instead of zero outside of mathematics. Like double oh seven for james bond.
Many thanks to the algorithm for gathering us all together again. We've been through a lot since this was posted.
I feel like as young people are reading out phone numbers less and as American media becomes more and more prevalent in the uk the whole double numbers thing might go away completely.
I disagree, whenever reading any number out loud brits would say double and triple.
And it’s a more subtle thing that wouldn’t get changed after watching American Media
I remember as a kid being very confused when Yugioh characters would say "Fifteen hundred life points" instead of "One thousand five hundred life points"
It makes sense in Yu-Gi-Oh since the smallest unit of life points was 100, so speaking in terms of hundreds was sort of natural.
It's over ninety hundred!
Actually, certain cards do deal damage with a 50 on the end, so you might have 50 life points.
I’d call dealing 50 damage the exception to the rule. Most typically, the game deals with 100 hit point increments.
For me it was the fifteen hundred metres in athletics. Eight hundred metres made sense, so I had to think of it as 800 metres scaled up. That's still the way I make sense of it.
I believe it was Winston Churchill who said we are two countries separated by a common language :-).
It was George Bernard Shaw who said that.
wow quoting Churchill... whats next Hitler?
Far too clever to have been from Churchill.
99loki Trump said it with help from Putin.
‘Separated’ by one language!? What’s that meant to mean!? 🤔
As a 57 year old Brit who has lived in the UK all my life, I have only ever heard or used Mississippi for counting seconds. Never heard of using Piccadilly or Elephant until watching this video.
In Germany we use four-syllable words for each second: Einundzwanzig (21), Zweiundzwanzig (22), Dreiundzwanzig (23) and so on.
@Koholos You kind of start counting at 20 (zwanzig). Not sure if that's connected, but I always count things in multiples of twenty too, you start by 20, count to 39, and then start again at 20 and count the times you cycled through
@Koholos its actually very accurate to a second if you say it normally
Same in Dutch (één-en-twin-tig, twee-en-twin-tig, drie-en-twin-tig). To me this feels a lot more natural than Mississippi or Piccadilly because the four syllables give a nice four-beats-in-a-bar rhythm
It's another compound. It's not a unique word, it translates to '1 and 20, 2 and 20'
I am German and I just start at one and try to count very slowly. I isn't accurate but I never even heard of another way of counting
You may say triple zero, but more likely 'treble oh'' for me.
Yeah in Australia we also say “treble oh”
As a bassist I find myself saying "treble oh" very often, though in a very different context most of the time
Definitely treble oh
Oh no
more often than not im reading two numbers at a time so i dont pay attention to the third zero, so i say “double zero, zero” then think “oh look could of said treble”
So this just popped up in my recommendations, and I'm glad as I found it interesting.
The one reason I could see for the British numbering streets in opposite directions on each side would be for mail delivery. At least around us the delivery person walks up one side of the street, then crosses and walks down the other. Reverse numbering would allow them to more simply arrange the mail for delivery, as they would then be delivering to all addresses in ascending or descending order.
"A Space Odyssey Twenty Hundred And One" 😄😁
US: "8-8-4-4"
UK: "double-8-double-4"
France: "Hold my beer...4-20-8-40-4"
(quatre-vingt-huit, quarante-quatre)
What... Is this real??
@@snickidy6947 Yes, it's how you'd say "Eighty eight, forty four," but I think 8844 would just be huit huit quatre quatre. (pronounced sorta like wheat wheat cot cot)
Please explain more! What is going on?
@@PsychoMuffinSDM Basically in French certain number's names are just combinations of other numbers. For instance, eighteen is dix-huit (or ten-eight). 80 is quatre-vegnt (four-twenty as in four times twenty), and so 88 would be quatre-vegnt-huit, or four-twenty-eight or four times twenty plus eight.
@@tobinsyoutubechannel2200 Well they, for some reason, bunch up the numbers in pairs. Such as 9951 would be quatre-vingts-onze cinquante-un.
ONE numberfile, TWO numberfile, THREE numberfile, etc.
*numberphile
+dusty burkybile Indeed. Oops!
+Bill Streifer
Or if you wanted to take care of your nails in a particularly mathematical way.
Shnarfbird I get it ... "PHILE"
Numberception
I have never seen so many books on _Semantics_ .
This is the most animated CGP Grey has ever been
That thirteen years in England is starting to affect her accent
Did*
*effect
*offuct
GamingOS Its "affect", not "effect"...
affix^
I was fine up until Grey took off his glasses. I'm so used to seeing him with them on it's jarring to see him without them.
7:10 I'm from a german-speaking country and we interestingly say "einundzwanzig, zweiundzwanzig, dreiundzwanzig, ..." which means "twentyone, twentytwo, twentythree, ...". We just start counting from twenty if we need to count out seconds
Eenentwintig, tweeentwintig drieentwintig........
In Britain the numbering convention is for houses in a street to be odd numbers on the left, and even numbers on the right. In addition they are numbered according to the street in which the main entrance is found, and consecutive numbering is in a clockwise direction.
1 thousand Mississippi elephants in Piccadilly.
XD
Imagine then what it means for a Belgian saying "seventy-three" for 73, to go to France and having to get used to saying "sixty-thirteen".
That's hilarious. I have enough trouble with the inverted syntax in German.
Let alone 93 being "four-twenty thirteen". Unless that's changed since I did French in grade school.
HunterShows Yeah... I ask myself why we germans do that... it's just weird and I have to think twice on english numbers as well XD
What's also SUPER confusing and makes me struggle every time is the weird thing in germany with big numbers... In germany we say Million , Milliarden where in english you say million, billion wich means where im in german at Trillion you in english are already at quintillion... >.
But it's not only German that does it that way round (let's just start a revolution and say "zwanzigundeins" from now on!), it's also the Dutch "eenentwintig", and the Danish "enogtyve" (found the same for Norwegian, but only in one place, the others all list "tjueen" only). And for Latin I found "viginti unus" as well as "unus et viginti".
I, as an American, have always pronounced 2001 like " two thousan'n one"
Yes
I’m pretty sure Americans say “two thousand and one” too, it seems to vary based on circumstance or preference.
It probably depends on exactly where you live but im American and everyone I know says two thousand one without the and, the and sounds very awkward to me.
From what I can tell, it’s more professional to say “two thousand and one”, and more casual to say “two thousand one”
I’ve always pronounced it two thousand one, and I come from Ohio.
Could also just be to make it easier to say.
I live in Southern California and all of the people I know say Two Thousand and One, instead of dropping the and. It sounds off without the and
My experience is similar to R B; My teachers in elementary school actually took points off of math questions if we said "and" and there wasn't a decimal place. Drilled it into my head that it's two thousand one, not two thousand and one.
@@milo3733 im american and i would say "two thousand and one"
22 = double two
222 = triple 2
2222 = double two double two
If you have 4 you might follow it up with:
Double two double two, that’s four twos
-edit source I work at a company that has the number 226666 and my mum’s company was 718882
why not double double two? :-P
22222 = double two two double two
I say "Friple Two". Am I wrong?
@@jumpingjflash actually this would be triple double 2
Just kidding... while it's logical most would instead say double 2, double 2 double 2
hello, is that 5 double five five?
No, this is double 5 double 5.
"Numbers confuse Americans" sounds so sad.
We also add letters to our houses if we add new address in-between existing ones.
Note on UK House numbers: numbered from 1 up to the number or buildings/houses, normally odd to the left, even to the right, counting out from village/town/city centre. The difference is often to do with size of plots/ frontages. If all the buildings/plots are evenly sized on a straight road, they tend to line up well. On my road however, because one number actually relates to a terraced block, with 5 buildings on one number (e.g. 3a, 3b etc), they all no longer line up. They're still usually sequential and counted in the same direction. With some oddities. Also, often 13 is omitted due to "bad luck" fears.
I'm not sure if anyone's commented the same, but for me, I can definitely remember using the word "hippopotamus" as a counting word
I go:
One and a two and a three and a four and a five and a six and a seven and an eight and a nine and a ten and an eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen...
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I just say 1 2 3 4 5
It seems people enjoy having the spacing be a 4 syllable word. Mississippi and piccadilly both having 4 syllables.
@@Druzhh imagine someone counting out loud “one, hippopotamus, two, hippopotamus, three, hippopotamus”
I think the most likely reason Americans will say 53 hundred has to do with street numbers as mentioned later. If you're between 53rd and 54th, you're in the 53 hundred block. Calling it the 5 thousand 3 hundred block would make it more confusing, and since so many of our cities are laid on on grids like that, I rather suspect that is influential.
The $100 bill thing seems the more likely reason to me.
But why call it the 5300 block at all? Just call it the 53 block, you don’t need the hundred
And why do they say 'two thousand one' for dates and not 'twenty hundred one' as with the 5300 example?
I think it is more to do with currency vs patterns. For money you would say 5 thousand 3 hundred because it is a full count. For the year it is about clarity...so two thousand one Etc until double digits...then use a 2x2 pattern "twenty ten" about half the time and "two thousand ten" the other. Phone numbers in patterns unique to the number because patterns are easier to remember: fivefivefive twothree sixthree. Or. 5 5 5 twelve ten. Same for credit cards and addresses...patterns. if it is a zip code, phone number, area code,or address, some areas say "oh" instead of zero. An American might say 12 hundred dollars. But would almost never say 1 thousand 2 hundred for an address. They would say. 4 oh 4 or 4 zero 4. For an address more often than 4 hundred 4
I don't know about other countries, but I have refused to take a new phone number that didn't have a nice pattern or rhythm!
@@AugustinStevenIn Denmark (DKK valued about 1/6 of the dollar) we use 100 kroner bills in almost every transaction and it's not rare to see 1000 kroner bills. We will say 19 hundred, 2 thousand, 2 thousand 1 hundred...
When you get to a high number, saying xx-hundred no longer helps you visualize the amount. And most people around me, including my self, swap at 2k
the triple thing depends on the rhythm of the long number, so if it's a phone number and it starts as 07778, chances are you'd say '0 double 7, 78...' not '0 triple 7 8' but again, it depends on the rythwm that you read phone numbers!
I recently put the over a dozen counting words in a spreadsheet and tested which ones work best (for me). Then I figured out some additional words that I guessed would work even better (for me), and they did. I have decided I especially like the rainy "pitter-patter" for counting the seconds from lightning to thunder. Another that worked well for me was "dilly-dally". TH-cam hates URLs in comments, so I cannot share the spreadsheet here, but everyone is going to be different anyway. A fast talking NYC auctioneer is going to need different words than a cowboy with a slow Texas drawl.
"Double-O Seven"
"Triple A batteries"
Seems universal to me :)
Reminds of that Vine. ‘a’...’ahh’...’AAH’...’AAAAAHHHHHH’. RIP vine
As a French speaker we tend to say "0-0-7" and "A-A-A" not "Double-0 7" and "Triple A" so it might be common across English dialects but definitely not universal.
I was always taught that "triple" shoud not be used in phone numbers. Thus it is either "nine double nine" or "double nine nine". but not "triple nine"
In fact, though, this is the UK emergency number and we normally say "nine nine nine".
However, the european 112 emergency number has worked in the UK for some years and I understand that other international emergency numbers will also work - though I am not about to waste everybody's time experimenting to see if it is true.
@joe marsdenYes - but "AA" means "Automobile Association" when referring to motor vehicles - at least I hope it means that and not "Alcoholics Anonymous" in that context.
And the AA is by no means the only breakdown service in the UK. There is also the Royal Automobile Club (RAC), Green Flag etc
"universal" is bold
O eight-hundred double-O ten sixty-six!
David Ndiulor 0800001066
I think. I'm not sure. and that's a problem.
zealotguy your not British right? Haha
zealotguy if you was you should surely get what he has said haha
is it a phone number?
zealotguy hastings direct insurace
Huh.. watched this video years ago and here it is back in my recommendations
where i live, there are a few (more rural) places that have house numbers in order of how houses were constructed, so they are 100% random and without any order
I live in Scotland. I've always used 'elephant'. I've heard 'mississippi' used and it does seem more rhythmical in practice. Maybe that's why I'm always late.
I'm fae Scotland anaw, I've always used Hippopotamus to space my numbers.
You should be early then. Elephant rolls of the tongue more easily.
I also sometimes use alligator, but I think Mississippi rolls off the tongue better
I’m from North Yorkshire and I’ve always used elephant as well. Never heard of Piccadilly being used before though. Maybe it’s a southern thing.
I’m from Scotland but moved to New Zealand when I was 7. In Scotland I was just taught to say the word second but slowly. When I moved to New Zealand I heard people using Mississippi but I thought they said “miss a sippy” lol. I always preferred to just say ‘second’ because once you get into double digits ‘Mississippi’ is too slow.
Usually In the UK, if there are three identical numbers in a row e.g. 444 you say treble four, not triple four.
Edis Yuksel-kilic really?? as an Aussie that says triple it sounds like your joking :P
dont listen to him.. we say trouble 4 not treble 4.
True.
Triple is common in the U.S. but we still use treble in certain areas of society. For example, laws in the U.S. sometimes refer to 'treble damages' to mean three times the amount of damages. Likely a result of American law being based on British common law.
I use treble, and I'm scottish
My dad was a US fighter pilot and apparently they used "potato" when they were counting when to turn in a formation. So I picked that up when I was young and still use it.
1 elephant took me back to primary school
House numbers in England are actually 1 3 5 7 on one side and 2 4 6 8 on the other in the correct order UNLESS you're in some very specific parts of central London. I guess that's the problem you fall into when your only context of an entire country is one tiny part of it.
Phillip Parr I think it's pretty common in rest of Europe as well.
Phillip Parr Same in Australia
I've found the number system described in the vid in other parts of England (current in the West Country), but only where there is a cul-de-sac and the numbers wrap-around the end of the road (hence them going the other way on the opposite side). Quite useful on a small residential road, no so much in London I imagine.
its not always like this - two streets i used to know have started 1,2,3,4... at the top of the street on one side, and when it reaches the end it either loops round or crosses to the other side carrying on the consecutive number sequence until youre back at the top of the street. neither of those houses have been anywhere near london, one was inner northamptonshire and the other was a village just outside peterborough
From a town in Essex and I'm pretty sure most of our house numbers are in a straight line
one,
otorhinolaryngologist,
two,
otorhinolaryngologist...
that's how I count minutes.
BillyViBritannia thats closer to 15 seconds.
R/woosh
*GENIUS*
Just gonna summon Toast eh?
@@Neilious r/foundthemobileuser
And we haven't even got to the billions yet? oh right, the title's not vice versa
In the UK they dial "nine, nine, nine" for emergency. In Australia we dial "triple zero".
I grew up with "one, cup a tea, two, cup a tea ..."
+Holy Moly well that seems british
The british is real
The empire is real
You've got me there. What can I say? Better go and have a nice cup of tea.
I grew up in the south UK and all the math teachers taught "1, one hundred, 2, one hundred, 3, one hundred."
How confusing is that?
10:58 I know why the numbers may seem very strange on the separate sides of the road. When the postman is trying to deliver post, they will have a large bundle and it will start at 1,3,5,7,9 etc. but it acts as a loop so when they get to the other end of the road, it will go 21,23,25 then cross over to 25,22,20,18 etc. It makes it very simple for postal workers to follow a set route and deliver.
If this is confusing, no one tell them how Germans do their multidigit numbers
Im german and i had to think about what people would get confused about lol
How do they say it?
@@stellanavigatio2429 45 as in forty-five would be pronounced as five and forty
@@hollanderson But five forty would be 540
@@stellanavigatio2429 precisely why you'd be confused if you were to hear it in germany
There is nothing confusing about saying 53 hundred. If you don't like it that's fine but don't try to justify it with bullshit like "it's less precise".
3:46 did numberphile predict in 2013 Britain putting Alan Turing on a banknote
Damn
Whaaaaaat? His name must have been bandied about for a while as a candidate for place on notes? Surely? Otherwise. How?
Interestingly, Simon Singh, a regular on Numberphile, is on the committee that recommends people for banknoteworthiness.
000 was always referred to as "triple nought" in US art and architecture circles when I was in school. Also in US elementary schools, "and" is often used to differentiate a decimal, like 3.5 is "three AND five tenths" or $3.50 is "three dollars AND fifty cents".
My math teacher used to get mad if we said "and" unless we were reading a decimal out loud
112 = eleventy-two
1112 = eleventy-twelve
74 = sixty-fourteen
6014 = fifty-seven-hundred plus pi-hundred
14 days = fortnight
10 days = tenight
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Dont forget the clocks,
five and twenty to six = 5:35
Five and ten past four = 4:15
Huh
Seventy-fourteen is very similar to the what the french do
@@francisariwaodo318 double forty seventeen?
We say “treble” instead of triple in the NW
Yep, we say that in East Anglia too.
You must not mean Oregon/Washington/Idaho lol
@@AdamPFarnsworth NW England haha!
Treble is defo it
I dont apart from in footy