How to Write Numbers in English - American Culture

Learn how to write numbers in English. See how Americans use commas and periods in numbers.
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TRANSCRIPT:
Hi. I’m Denise. Thank you for watching my video. Today I’m going to talk about how to write numbers in English. So, to start with single digits, I’ll start with the zero. We just start at the top and make an oval shape. Okay? The number one is just a straight line starting at the top and going down, just a straight line. Notice that this may be different from the way you make a number one in your country or in your language. In some countries the number one is made with a little cap or a top on it something like that, but in the United States, we don’t write it that way. If somebody were to write a number one like this, an American would probably think that this is the number seven. So in the United States, we don’t make our number one like that. We just make a straight line. Now the number two starts about here in the upper part of the line. We loop around, go down on a slant, and then make a straight line on the bottom. The number three starts up in the upper part of the line and then we make two loops. That’s number three. The number four starts at the top, goes down and across at the middle, and then lift the pen, go back to the top and come straight down. Notice that I left part of my horizontal line over here. This vertical line does not go right to the end. Now this, too, is different from the way people in some countries make a number four. In some places, the number four looks like this with a point. And we would recognize that as a number four, but we usually would write the number four this way without a point at the top. So we don’t put this point up here. The number five starts at the top, goes down to the middle. Then we make a curved part to the right, lift the pen, go back to the top, and go across. That’s number five. Number six starts at the top, goes around to the bottom, makes a loop. Number seven starts at the top, goes across, and down on a slant. Remember I said that we do not make our number one like this because then it may look like a number seven and I hope that you see the similarity. In some countries, the number seven has a line across the middle. In the United States, we don’t usually make our number seven that way. The number eight starts at the top, we make a loop, and around, and then we go back up to the top. Usually the top just goes straight up. The number nine is a loop at the top and straight down. This is different from the way the nine is made in some other countries also because in some places the number nine curves at the bottom like that. But in the United States, we don’t usually, well, we never make the nine like that. Okay? So this is how we make single digits.
To write two and three digit numbers, we just write the digits next to each other without any other symbols between. I’m sure that’s the way you write your numbers, too. So we write number ten, for example, just the one and the zero next to ...

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I'm so thankful for everything you bring in the video , btw I'm arab and that halps me to improve my handwriting.

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[@JK-dq3pj]

This is interesting. I’m American and I write my 1’s with the cap and a line at the bottom, and I write my seven with a line.

[@Coopos]

Ha Ha. You're contradicting me. 😊 Thanks for watching!

[@Kai-715]

Same! But I did grow up in Germany so that might be why ^^

[@tristantheoofer2]

i write 1s with the cap and 7s with the line thingy in the front going down a little. also i write 0s with a diagonal line through so ye

[@guvengonullu3516]

Hi, do you add "and" after hundred and thousand like the British do? If so is it necessary or optional?

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[@kyriakospetakos3154]

thanks again for your admonition only one remark the continental european 7 with the line in the middle is recognizable by Americans, the number one should look like a capital I but 7 even with the line in the middle is accepted, thank you

[@Coopos]

Thank you for your comment and for watching.

[@Allanapolis83232]

Though I make my 1 with a little hook on the top and a base at the bottom to avoid confusion with an “I” and a lowercase “l”.

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Thank you!

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[@tonyameadows9042]

Do you have a video on Zaner-Bloser cursive letters? I've recently added a lot of your cursive writing to a playlist and need the cursive numbers.

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Hi. I do not have a video specifically about Zaner-Bloser. Here are two of my cursive writing videos. Lowercase ua-cam.com/video/HXTqbO0C2e8/v-deo.html Uppercase ua-cam.com/video/8uS68bA16hU/v-deo.html

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Thank you!
Is it the same in UK?

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Do people in the UK write the same way as in the Us or do they have some differences

[@Allanapolis83232]

Sometimes the 3 has a flat top, resembling the Ʒ (ezh), so it it could prevent people from falsely turning a 3 into an 8.

[@Coopos]

Thanks for sharing.

[@Allanapolis83232]

And I usually make my 1s with a small hook in the top (but not too large) and a bar on the bottom, as it might look too similar to the lowercase l or the capital I.

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interesting ....!!

[@alissakarina7674]

this is so frustrating, as someone who moves a lot the way i write my numbers are a mixture of diff cultures. i write my nines still without curves like americans but i write my 7s the indonesian ways and my 1s like the germans and now people cant understand my hand writing and they mistake my 9 for a 4 an a a q or even a g.

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Wow! That does sound frustrating. Good luck!

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And the 3 sometimes can be written with a flat top to avoid being falsified to an 8.

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excellent job

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Do you put commas in decimal part if it is very long?

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No, I have never seen this.

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Everyone is different.

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Hi😀
I asked for the number 1,111,111 in words like?

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One million one hundred eleven thousand one hundred eleven. Please see my video "How to Say Numbers in English." ua-cam.com/video/uEGYX8UAsK4/v-deo.html

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It looks like writing numbers in the U.S. and in Russia is very different.

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[@Muhammed.Yaseen]

Why do we write five that way????

[@Pidalin]

She writtes 5 exactly the same how we learn it here in Czech Republic.

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When at Rome, do as the Romans do.:)

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[@Pidalin]

0:33 - that's just not 1 for me 😀 I actually thought that 4 down there at 2:12 is how Americans are writting it, because in Europe we do it as you show for American writting, only 6 years old kids do 4 like down because they see it printed so they repeat that, I remember this when I was at 1st grade of elementary. Except 1 and 7, we make numbers completely same as americans here in Czech Republic, most of people cross 7, but not all of them, 9 is mostly same as American. When you writte 7 without cross, you should be careful about making horizontal line always really horizontal, it can easily look like European 1, we mostly don't do it was line in handwritting, it mostly curved, this what you showed is more like technical script which we had to use at technical school. Using some commas on points after 000 was always so confusing for me, we do just empty space there, like 1 000 000 000. When I see 1,000.37, my brain wants to explode, I have no idea what number is that without explanation becuase as you said, some countries use points and some commas, so you always need to know where is that person from, that's why I prefer our way with just space and comma for decimal numbers, but we don't mostly do space when it's only 1000.

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