سوار بر امواج خروشان زبان انگلیسی

Rules:

1. The British English system goes like this:
    
1. Units; e.g. 1 = 'one'; "A postage stamp for a letter to a Hong Kong address costs
   
   
   less than nine dollars" .
    
2. Tens; e.g. 10 =  'ten'; 13 = 'thirteen'; 14 = fourteen; 40 = 'forty' (not
   
   
   'fourty') 44 
   
   
   = 'forty-four' ; "A meal for one person in a fast-food restaurant costs about twenty-
   
   
   five dollars". 
    
3. Hundreds; e.g. 100 = 'one hundred'; 999 = 'nine hundred and ninety-nine' ;
   
   
    "Valentine's Day dinner costs hundreds of dollars".
    
4. Thousands; e.g. 1,000 = 'one thousand'; 8,765 = 'eight thousand, seven
   
   
     hundred
    and sixty-five
   
   
    ; "My new mobile phone cost over two thousand dollars". 
    
5. Ten(s) of thousands; e.g. 10,000 = ten thousand (一萬); 98,765 =
   
   
   ninety-eight thousand, seven hundred and sixty-five
   
   
   
   
   ' ; "After ten years of working experience I expect my salary to be over twenty
   
   
    thousand dollars". 
    
6. Hundred(s) of thousands; e.g 100,000 = 'one hundred thousand' (十萬); 
   
   
   987,654
   
   
    = nine hundred and eighty-seven thousand, six hundred and fifty-four' ; 
   
   
   "My
   
   
    father's car cost over one hundred thousand dollars". 
    
7. Millions; e.g. 1,000,000 = 'one million' (一百萬); 9,876,543 = 'nine million, 
   
   
   eight
    hundred and seventy-six thousand, five hundred and forty-three' ; "My 
   
   
   parents' flat
   
   
    cost over two million dollars". 
    
8. Tens of millions; e.g. 10,000,000 = 'ten million' (一千萬); 98,765,432 = 
   
   
    -ninety
   eight million, seven hundred and sixty-five thousand, four hundred and  
   thirty-two 
   
   
    "A luxury flat on the Peak costs over ten million dollars". 
   
   
    
9. Hundreds of millions; e.g. 100,000,000 = 'one hundred million' (一億);
   
   
     987,654,321
    nine hundred and eighty-seven million, six hundred and fifty-four thousand, 
    three hundred and twenty-one' ; "A large company's turnover can be several
   
   
    hundred million dollars". 
    
10. Billions; e.g. 1,000,000,000 = 'one billion'; 9,876,543,210 = 'nine billion, eight
     hundred and seventy-six million, five hundred and forty-three thousand, two
    
    
     hundred and ten' ; "The turnover on the Hong Kong stock exchange is over a
    
    
     billion dollars every day"
    . 
    Note: in British English one billion used to be 1,000,000,000,000, but now the
    
    
     American system is commonly used, so one billion = one thousand million.
    
    
     
11. Trillions; e.g. 1,000,000,000,000 = 'one trillion'; 9,876,543,210,987 = 'ninetrillion,
     eight hundred and seventy-six billion, five hundred and forty-three million, two
     hundred and ten thousand, nine hundred and eighty-seven' ; "The Gross National
    
    
     Product (GNP) of some advanced countries is over one trillion dollars each year".
    
    
    
    
     
     
2. The commas go every 3 digits, starting from the right; e.g. 1,000,000,000
    
3. In writing, the commas are in the same places as the commas in the numbers.
    
4. The word 'and' comes after the word 'hundred', if the digits before the next comma are
   
   
    not 00; e.g. 100 = 'one hundred'; 110 = 'one hundred and ten'; 101 = 'one hundred
   
   
    and one'.
    
5. Do not use plurals in exact numbers; e.g. 'two million'. Only use plurals for inexact numbers;
6. 
   
7.  e.g. "Company turnover was hundreds of millions of dollars".