Most style guides agree that beginning a sentence with a numeral is poor style, so years placed at the beginning of a sentence should be written out as words. Years are normally divided into two parts; the first two digits and the last two digits. 1984 is divided into 19 and 84 so you would say nineteen eighty-four. Months and days of the week. 1060 AD = 1060 CE. British English. If you write 4/8/2011, it is the 4th August 2011 in Britain, but it is April 8th, 2011 in the USA. We read three- digit years as a pair or the way we count money. For years between 2000 and up to the end of the third millennium: 2000 is pronounced ‘two thousand’. How to Write the Year. Exercises – The date. American English. Some may read twenty thirteen. Where ‘2’ is followed by 2 zeros, the pronunciation is ‘thousand’. 763 is seven sixty-three or seven hundredn and sixty three. It is common to use numbers instead of months. Thanks to Sharon. 1066 = ten sixty-six; 1652 = sixteen fifty-two; 1941 = nineteen forty-one; 2017 = twenty seventeen; How to say the years after 2000. Most people would read two thousand thirteen or two thousand and thirteen.

For the year 2000 you say (the year) two thousand. For example, 1997 is nineteen ninety-seven. Years should be expressed as numerals except at the beginning of a sentence. Basically, we tend to read four-digit years as a pair of 2-digit numbers. How to say the YEAR in English.