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Kings and Queens
We say the numbers like this:
Henry Vill Henry the Eighth (NOT Henry Eight)
Louis XIV Louis the Fourteenth
Floors
The ground floor of a British house is the first floor of an American house;
the British first floor is the American second floor, etc.
US
GB
third floor
second floor
second floor
first floor
ground floor
first floor -
and
In British English, we use and between the hundreds and the tens in a
number.
310 three hundred and ten (US three hundred ten)
5,642 five thousand, six hundred and forty-two
Note that in writing we use commas (,) to separate thousands.
aand one
We can say a hundred or one hundred, a thousand or one thousand.
One is more formal.
{ want to live for a hundred years.
(NOT ... forhundrectyears-)
Pay Mr J Baron one thousand pounds. (on a cheque)
We only use a at the beginning of a number. Compare:
ahundred _ three thousand one hundred
We can use a with other measurement words.
apint afoot amile
