Seventeen hundred or one thousand seven hundred

[Paddy]

What way would you say 1700?

Neither: it's five and eighty score

[TykeMerc]

Neither: it's five and eighty score

Isn't that 1605?

[MarillionFan]

Isn't that 1605?

Nah. That's the gunpowder plot.

[Moscow Mule]

My grandfather used to refer to hundreds.

I sometimes do, but only if I'm talking to an old person (>50).

[scooterscot]

What way would you say 1700?

5 O' Clock innit governor?

[RichardCranium]

What way would you say 1700?

In the year seventeen hundred, a ship cost one thousand, seven hundred pounds, travelled seventeen hundred miles and carried seventeen hundred barrels.

What way would you say 1700?

5 O' Clock innit governor?

I was in the council office this afternoon. A woman (member of staff) at the counter called out "Peter! What time's 19?"

Response: "Seven".

[centurian]

Why did we have 2x12 hours in a day, instead of a 24 hour clock in the first place.

Was it because people couldn't count as high as 24

[VectraMan]

I learned in French class last year that the French say the whole number, e.g. mille neuf-cent quatre-vingt dix-neuf (one thousand nine-hundred and ninety-nine), but in German I was told to say neunzehnhundertneunundneunzig (nineteen hundred ninety-nine). But that may just be years.

Is this one of those things we've adopted a bit from Germanic Anglo Saxon, and a bit from Norman French and ended up with both? Probably.

[TimberWolf]

Anyway, aside from dates, I find the hundred formulation annoying and immediately convert it to something meaningful when I hear it used. Not uncommonly the hundreds formulation will be accompanied with 'feet', ffs, which will mean a double conversion.

[Paddy]

Isn't that 1605?

yes