Writing date
About date, there are there different writing ways. Except British English and American English, another one is written entirely in figures. The examples are as follows.
2 July 2006 (BrE)-----2.7.06
July 2, 2006(AmE)-----7.2.06
Speaking date
20 April 1981=" April the twentieth, nineteen eighty-one"( AmE also" April twentieth…"）or "the twentieth of April, nineteen eighty-one"
1300=" thirteen hundred"
1508="fifteen hundred and eight" or "fifteen O eight"
1678="sixteen(hundred and) seventy-eight"
1810="eighteen (hundred and) ten"
2000="two thousand"
2008="two thousand and eight"
BC and AD
BC= Before Christ, AD=Anno Domini-Latin for "in the year of the Lord". BC follows the date; AD can come before or after it.
55BC, or AD 55/ 55AD
About date, there are there different writing ways. Except British English and American English, another one is written entirely in figures. The examples are as follows.
2 July 2006 (BrE)-----2.7.06
July 2, 2006(AmE)-----7.2.06
Speaking date
20 April 1981=" April the twentieth, nineteen eighty-one"( AmE also" April twentieth…"）or "the twentieth of April, nineteen eighty-one"
1300=" thirteen hundred"
1508="fifteen hundred and eight" or "fifteen O eight"
1678="sixteen(hundred and) seventy-eight"
1810="eighteen (hundred and) ten"
2000="two thousand"
2008="two thousand and eight"
BC and AD
BC= Before Christ, AD=Anno Domini-Latin for "in the year of the Lord". BC follows the date; AD can come before or after it.
55BC, or AD 55/ 55AD
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