On the subject of naming the Dapper successor

[Pete Ryland]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 08:39:13AM -0500, Shawn McMahon wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 02:56:15PM +0000, Paul Sladen said:
> > 
> >   6-04     six-dash-oh-four
> >   6-10     six-dash-ten
> >   2006-04  two-thousand-and-six-dash-oh-four,
> >   two-zero-zero-six-dash-zero-four
> >   2006.1   two-thousand-and-six-dot-one, 
> >   2006a    two-thousand-and-six-version-A
> 
> To some communities, such as accountants, "and" means a decimal place.
> "2006" is correctly stated, to those communities, as "two thousand six",
> and "2006.1" could be correctly stated "two thousand six and 1";
> however, I've never met anybody who didn't prefer "two thousand six
> point 1".  In the US, anyway.

Yeah, that's definitely a US thing.  I guess pronouncing "zero" as "oh" must
be a US thing too?

Pete