- days
- years
The date
1/1/2019
written = The 1st of January 2019 or January the first, 2019 or 1 January or January 1
spoken = “The first of January twenty nineteen” or “January the first twenty ninteen”
1st “first”
2nd “second”
3rd “third”
the rest is “th” : 4th fourth 5th 6th etc
The 2nd of February 2019
February the second
The years
For years we usually speak in pairs of numbers
XX + XX
1999 = 19 + 99
nineteen ninety nine
But
1901 = 19 + 01
x: nineteen one
o: nineteen oh one
use this for 01-09
1900
o: The year nineteen hundred
x: one thousand nine hundred
BUT
2000
o: The year two thousand
x: twenty oh oh
x: twenty hundred
2001
But we usually say two thousand and one but some people will say twenty oh one
2010
o: Twenty ten
o: Two thousand and ten