Seventeen hundred or one thousand seven hundred

[minestrone]

What way would you say 1700?

[MarillionFan]

What way would you say 1700?

Seventeen hundred.

[TimberWolf]

I dislike the hundreds variant and always convert to thousands.

Edit: the exception being dates, which convention appears to be that it is hundreds

Edit2: Not consistently though! Prior to 2000, you'd expect to hear dates uttered in centuries, but that sounds wrong after the year 2000 (spoken 'year two thousand', not 'year 20 hundred'). Does anyone say 'twenty hundred and 11' as the current year? No many probably. It's 'two thousand and eleven', or 'twenty eleven' (a hybrid not mentioning units). Just as not many would have said 'one thousand nine hundred and ninety nine' rather than 'nineteen hundred and ninety nine' in 1999.

[minestrone]

I dislike the hundreds variant and always convert to thousands.

Same, I think it is an Americanism as I never knew my father to use it as a, now retired, accountant.

[Spacecadet]

What way would you say 1700?

depends on the context and who i'm speaking to.

[centurian]

Hundreds up to 2000, thousands thereafter, i.e. no "twenty-seven hundred".

After all, the numbers 11-19 use a different format to other 2 digit numbers. If it's twenty-four, thirty-four, fourty-four etc. why not onety-four instead of fourteen.

[TimberWolf]

Hundreds up to 2000, thousands thereafter, i.e. no "twenty-seven hundred".

After all, the numbers 11-19 use a different format to other 2 digit numbers. If it's twenty-four, thirty-four, fourty-four etc. why not onety-four instead of fourteen.

There's no oneteen and twoteen either

[scooterscot]

If one is conversing with non-native english speakers I should say the latter. Avoid americanisms it's not proper english.

[MarillionFan]

What way would you say 1700?

I think you'll find what you've got me old son is.

A Bag of Sand, A Monkey, 4 Ponies, a Carpet, 6 Speckled Hens and a couple of Lady Godivas.

Sorted.

[TykeMerc]

Fair comments re the teen numbers being a bit odd. I wonder why that came about?

depends on the context and who i'm speaking to.

Same here although generally speaking seventeen hundred for dates and one thousand seven hundred for almost all other uses would probably be right in my head.