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  Re: Java digits pronunciation markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> - 2013-01-18 10:48 -0800
    Re: Java digits pronunciation Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2013-01-18 10:59 -0800
      Re: Java digits pronunciation Tim Slattery <Slattery_T@bls.gov> - 2013-01-18 16:08 -0500
        Re: Java digits pronunciation Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2013-01-18 13:36 -0800
          Re: Java digits pronunciation FredK <fred.l.kleinschmidt@gmail.com> - 2013-01-18 14:46 -0800
    Re: Java digits pronunciation Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2013-01-18 16:53 -0800

#21534 — Re: Java digits pronunciation

On 1/18/2013 10:37 AM, Stefan Ram wrote:
>    In a Java programming class in Sunnyvale (U.S.A.), how would
>
> 0.01
>
>    usually be pronounced?
>
>    nought point oh one?
>

"Point zero one," or "one one-hundredth," is how I'd pronounce it. 
Maybe "zero point zero one."  "Oh" is OK too in place of "zero."

Americans do not use "nought."  In fact my spell checker flags it as a 
misspelling.

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#21537

On 1/18/13 10:48 AM, markspace wrote:
> On 1/18/2013 10:37 AM, Stefan Ram wrote:
>>    In a Java programming class in Sunnyvale (U.S.A.), how would
>>
>> 0.01
>>
>>    usually be pronounced?
>>
>>    nought point oh one?
>>
>
> "Point zero one," or "one one-hundredth," is how I'd pronounce it. Maybe
> "zero point zero one."  "Oh" is OK too in place of "zero."
>
> Americans do not use "nought."  In fact my spell checker flags it as a
> misspelling.

I would either says "zero point zero one".  Though it depends on the 
full context.  For example, in phone numbers, I'm likely to say "oh" for 
zeros.

Also, for periods which aren't decimal points, I'm likely to use "dot" 
instead of "point".  For example "version 1.02" I would say "one point 
oh two"

This is my own way of doing it, I'm not sure how standard that is.

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#21543

ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote:


>  In fact, in another bus, later, I heard another person, a
>  boy, speaking English in an American way, who said »What did
>  he do/say?« (or something like this) pronounced as »What did
>  he do slash say?« - I never heard this use of »slash« before!

IM(NS)HO, that's ugly. It's certainly not typical here.

-- 
Tim Slattery
Slattery_T@bls.gov

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#21544

On 1/18/13 1:08 PM, Tim Slattery wrote:
> ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote:
>
>
>>   In fact, in another bus, later, I heard another person, a
>>   boy, speaking English in an American way, who said »What did
>>   he do/say?« (or something like this) pronounced as »What did
>>   he do slash say?« - I never heard this use of »slash« before!
>
> IM(NS)HO, that's ugly. It's certainly not typical here.
>
I've heard it, but more often that's pronounced "or" rather than "slash" 
when used in an utterance.

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#21548

On Friday, January 18, 2013 1:36:39 PM UTC-8, Daniel Pitts wrote:
> On 1/18/13 1:08 PM, Tim Slattery wrote: > ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote: > > >> In fact, in another bus, later, I heard another person, a >> boy, speaking English in an American way, who said �What did >> he do/say?� (or something like this) pronounced as �What did >> he do slash say?� - I never heard this use of �slash� before! > > IM(NS)HO, that's ugly. It's certainly not typical here. > I've heard it, but more often that's pronounced "or" rather than "slash" when used in an utterance.

But pronouncing the "slash" is getting more common, especially in light of 
the Web (Ugh!). What bothers me is when people say "forward slash" instead of 
just "slash".

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#21559

markspace wrote:
> Stefan Ram wrote:
>>  In a Java programming class in Sunnyvale (U.S.A.), how would
>> 0.01 usually be pronounced?

There are many ways.

>>    nought point oh one?
> 
> "Point zero one," or "one one-hundredth," is how I'd pronounce it. 

No.

The first would be spelled, ".01" and the second "1/100" or such. One might 
say a synonym when reading it, but literally to pronounce it requires more precision.

Otherwise the answer to "Are '0.01' and '1/100th' pronounced the same?" would be "Yes."

> Maybe "zero point zero one."  "Oh" is OK too in place of "zero."

Agreed.

You have binary explosion: "zero point oh one", "oh point zero one", "oh point oh one".

> Americans do not use "nought."  In fact my spell checker flags it as a 
> misspelling.

I'm an American and I use "nought", "naught", "ought" and "aught" for "nil" or "zero".

But then, I'm an educated American. Who was excited to survive to the 21st Century so I 
could experience the oughts.

Your spell checker was loaded by an ignoramus.

Whether you'd *say* "zero point zero one" depends on whether you care to 
pronounce the word as written or simply convey the meaning.

-- 
Lew

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