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[–] [email protected] 68 points 4 months ago (4 children)

It'd just be eleven eleven, we don't say twenty two hundred twenty four.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago

I like how your example was the year 2224 which I have never heard anyone say and not like 1994

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

One-eleventy-one

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

but it's a thousand more than eleventy eleven?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Clearly you do not wear a monocle or a top hat but this is precisely how those of us that do do say it. Good evening madame.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

One thousand one hundred eleven