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by TheMatten 1031 days ago
> On the other other hand English does weird stuff with thousands - saying 2300 as 23 hundred.

Czech often does the same thing though, both when counting and naming years - "devatenáct set osmdesát čtyři" is literally "nineteen hundred eighty four"

There's "půldruha" and "poldruha" in Czech and Slovak too, but I feel like it loses competition to "jeden a půl/pol" in terms of usage.

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It’s US English that pronounces it that way.

I’d say, two thousand-three hundred. UK English.

what about 2 point 3 kay ...