Questions tagged [reading-aloud]
How to pronounce numbers and symbols that are not spelled out as words.
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Exercise 7 and 8 are on page 5. (pronunciation) [closed]
Exercise 7 and 8 are on page 5.
How do you pronounce that sentence?
Exercise seven and eight are on page five.
or
The seventh and eighth exercise are on the fifth page.
Or are both versions possible?
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How do you pronounce "f/4.5"?
How do you pronounce the part in bold?
The camera has a 32mm lens with a maximum aperture of f/4.5.
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How do we read and pronounce the "X" which are commonly seen in collaborations in advertising?
We often see major brand collaborating to launch new products e.g. The North Face X Timberland.
How do we read and pronounce the "X"? Do we say cross, times or with?
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How are tennis scores like "3-6 6-4 6-1" pronounced?
This sentence is from my book. The sentence is about Serbian tennis player Bojana Jovanovski. How do you pronounce 3-6 6-4 6-1 in this context?
Unfortunately, the day finished badly for Bojana ...
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How do you pronounce two variable values listed one on top of the other? [closed]
Long story short I need to figure out how to verbalize this equation:
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POTUS’ transformative American Jobs Plan [closed]
Is POTUS pronounced letter by letter: P,O,T,U,S? Or is it pronounced as /ˈpəʊ.təs/?
Nancy Pelosi tweeted:
Building Back Better means investing in the American people, building up our infrastructure ...
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How to pronounce negative exponents related to physics
How would you read (pronounce) the ending part of the following sentence:
After purging the measuring chamber with nitrogen gas at a rate of 0.15 L/h the count rate was reduced to 0.021 s–1 x kg–1.
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How do you pronounce WIP?
WIP (work in progress) is a commonly used acronym. But what is the correct way to pronounce it? Letter by letter seems clunky.
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How do you read numbered streets in the US?
How would you read
'1593 129th St SE Bluebird CA 92193'?
Is it 'one-five-nine-three, one hundred twenty ninth'?
Or is it 'fifteen hundred ninety three, one hundred twenty ninth'?
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British way to say £1.99 and €1.01 and €1.01
Are the following usages correct in BrE?
£1.01
One pound one.
One pound and one pence.
One pound one pence.
One pound and one.
One one
$1.01
One dollar one.
One dollar and one cent.
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Why do native speakers say '0' like 'O'?
I read this question (Should the number “0” be pronounced “zero” or “oh”?) and answers on English Language and Usage but my question is not the same as that one.
My question is basically why most ...
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How do I pronounce 3/21? [duplicate]
I need some help. So, I have been doing some work with fractions, and this came up: 3/21. I have no idea how to pronounce the 21 part. Is it twenty-oneth or..? I have no clue, so can someone give me ...
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'is equal to' versus 'equals' when reading '=' in math
Even though this question is about too basic a thing, I'd like to ask due to the significance it holds in math.
And this question might have a duplication issue as in other questions like Why do so ...
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How do you pronounce FAQs?
I've found online translators like Microsoft Bing Translator could be used in place of typing. Just read your text to the translator in Standard English and it would type it out for you.
I read the ...
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mRNA-1273 vaccine: How do you say the “1273” part aloud?
How do you pronounce 1273 here? One, two, seven, three?
Efficacy and Safety of the mRNA-1273 SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine
Published: December 30, 2020
Source: New England Journal of Medicine
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How to read aloud a sentence with parenthetical information in round/square brackets?
When people (like news anchors, for instance) speak about a quote, they often say "quote" at the beginning and "unquote" or maybe "end quote" at the end of the quote.
Do ...
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What's the natural way to express raising to the power of 2 (e.g.5²) and higher exponents (5³ and , 5⁴)?
What's the way/s that native English speakers say this number (52) in words?
Is there a shorter way than "Five to the power of 2"?
For example:
If you take 52 (in words?) and divide it ...
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How to read mixed operations in English
Can you tell me how to read mixed operations in English, like (14+4)÷2, 14×4+2, 14×(4+2)?
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How do I say “±” in English?
From here
I thought:
mathematical equation: 1 ± 1 - We can say "plus or minus one". Could I omit "or" to say "plus minus one"?
a signed mathematical number: ± 1 - We ...
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How do you pronounce 2'' x 9/2" x 8' (board)?
I called Home Depot to reserve some wood. This is my exact requirement: 2" x 9/2" x 8ft.
I told them over the phone many times
"I am calling to make sure if you have four 2 inch times 9 inch ...
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How do you pronounce 2×4 (board)
Recently, I found "2x4" as a weapon in a game I played.
I found that it's a common standard for lumber board.
I tried to pronounce it as "two multiplies four" but it feels really weird.
How should ...
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How do I say "1/1000"?
In everyday language, people call "1/100" 1 percent. How do I say "1⁄1000"?
O point one percent
1 thousandth
or something else?
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How to describe a fraction with a sentence [duplicate]
I want to describe the fraction x/y, how should I describe it in English?
x divided by y?
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How to pronounce ''Water 6 X 1.5 Litre''
It says on the tag '' Water 6 X 1.5 Litre'' . While pronouncing this phrase can i say : '' six bottles of 1,5 liter of water '' . Would it be correct or not ?
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How do you say 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 in word form? [duplicate]
I was reading a book called “BOMB” and the number 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 and I wanted to know what this number is in word form (how you say the word).
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How to read aloud this math symbol u_a(x)?
I asked a question about ua(x) just now.
Then I realized I have no idea how to read aloud the symbol.
Usually I read aloud X1 as "X one". Should I read aloud ua(x) as "u a of x"?
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Does single quote (') pronounce "dash" , "prime" or something else? [duplicate]
The lecturer is saying
we write as f dash of x
when talk about this formula.
I heard someone pronounce it as "prime" somewhere else.
Does single quote (') pronounce dash, prime or something ...
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How to pronounce this character `^`
this character ^ could be typed by shift + 6, usually means powers of some number, the question is
How to pronounce this character ^?
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"it is at 5 minute and 40 second" or "it is at 5 minutes and 40 seconds"?
Tell me please which sentence is correct.
The part where he is saying it is at 4 minute and 45 second.
The part where he is saying it is at 4 minutes and 45 seconds.
Or is this one better?
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How do you read capital letters?
For example, speaking AbcDEg, over a phone.
"capital A,b,c, capital D, capital E, g"
or
"uppercase A,b,c, uppercase D, uppercase E, g"
or some way else?
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How to write or read powers (math) by words? [duplicate]
What's the way to write or to read power (math) it in words?
Does "powered by" is correct?
For example:
"2 powered by 5 divided by 2 powered by 3." works?
Also "What 4 powered by 3 does equal to?...
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How to pronounce the slash sign
There is another common business type of partnership 51% / 49%.
Would it be correct to say “to” instead of the slash sign while speaking, like:
51% to 49%
If “to” is wrong, please correct me.
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Saying numbers - few options
I know that there are (at least) three options to read this number - 2500:
A. two thousand, five hundred
B. two thousand and five hundred
C. twenty-five hundred
Q1) Is "C" considered to ...
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Article or paragraph 47/1 pronunciation question
How should I pronounce 47/1?
India abstained on resolution 47/1 of 22 September 1992.
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$2,000 worth of items: "two thousand dollar" or "dollars"?
How do say this in words?
A $2,000 worth of items.
If I put it into words: A two-thousand dollar/dollars worth of items.
Which is the correct way here?
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How to give my address?
I want to book a hotel room over telephone and I was wondering how I should give my address. I think the best way to do it is to spell it because I don't think the person at the hotel would be able to ...
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Can any time on clock be spoken as it is in numbers only (hour + minutes)?
According to the Cambridge dictionary, the answer for “What time is it?” depends on the minutes.
When the times outside five-minute intervals, we say minutes past or
minutes to:
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How should I say this hour in words: "03:01:00"?
How should I say this hour in words: "03:01:00"?
It's three and one minute o'clock.
It's three and one minute.
Or the word "o'clock" can be said only in hours with two zeros (1:00, 2:00, ...
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How do you say this math expression in English (UK)?
(3x + 1)2 - x2
How do you say it?
So this is pronounce ‘bracket three x plus one bracket square minus x square?
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Negative numbers: "minus" or "negative"?
I noticed that when negative number are used in speech, there are two dominant patterns. Taking "-10" as an example, in some cases it is pronounced "negative ten", while in others it is "minus ten".
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How to read game scores?
Do people read, for example, "Bears' 20-12 loss" as "Bears' twenty to twelve loss" or "Bears' twenty twelve loss"？
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How to read "during the 1870's"?
Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel Demons is a piece that observes Russian ideals during the 1870's.
Maybe a trivial question but I am not sure how to express in a spoken word the date in the form as is ...
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How to read 'etc' in English?
'You hang up hurriedly and attend to baby,crockery,etc', could you please tell me how to read 'etc'? just read the letters one by one or there is another way to read it?
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How do you read the date 13 June?
How do you read the date 13 June?
Is it thirteen of June, thirteenth of June, thirteenth June. Do you say 'of' before the month? I think first day, after month is British but I wish other English ...
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What does it mean X symbol between 2 names?
What does it mean symbol x between 2 names? (I saw it in some places regarding to the peppermint names in Latin, for example on Wikipedia and on this site)
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Two thousand seventeen VS twenty seventeen: What is the rule for year pronunciation?
When I started learning English in junior school I was told that I had to pronounce the year 1997 nineteen ninety-seven and the year 2007 two thousand seven.
I've always followed the rule and ...
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Numbers in Words
How do we write 3,251 in words?
A. Three thousand two hundred and fifty one
B. Three thousand two hundred and fifty-one
C. Three thousand two hundred fifty-one
Essentially, I am requesting a ...
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How to pronounce 'GB' (the island)?
When talking about United Kingdom or United States people often pronounce the letters of the abbreviation like "you kay" (UK).
However, I have never noticed anyone spelling out 'GB'. Is it somehow ...
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How to pronounce 'GB'?
If I want to buy a phone with 64 GB, how should I say it?
Should I say
"A phone with 64 gigabyte."
or
"A phone with 64 GB (simply pronounce the letter 'G' and 'B')."
which one is more ...
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is it "a M" or "an M"
Is it "using an MD simulation" or "using a MD simulation"? MD stands for "Molecular Dynamics".
Since "M" is pronounced "EM", I thought it must be "an". I found both usages on the web through ...
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