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What is the plural form of zero? - English Language Usage Stack . . . If I Google "zeroes", I get the definition for the verb "zero", for which it claims "zeroes" is the third person present tense If I were writing something using both words, I think I personally would use "zeros" for the plural and "zeroes" for the verb - e g "when he zeroes the counter, the digits all change to zeros" –
Why is zero plural? - English Language Learners Stack Exchange Zero is not plural The plural of zero is "zeroes" as in "The score for the team today is zeroes all across the board " (Baseball) But when zero is used as an adjective to modify something countable the word it modifies is expressed in the plural Examples from other answers are "zero books", "zero liters", and your own example, "zero 3s"
When writing large numbers, should a comma be inserted? It's just preference The only reason larger numbers have them are because there are usually too many zeroes to eye Numbers in the low thousands you can easily tell how many zeros there are without commas –
Should the number 0 be pronounced zero or oh? I have often heard people say 101, as one-zero-one, and also as one-oh-one Which is correct, and why? Does the difference between British English and American English have to do something with it?
Go from zero to hero, usage and origin SUPPLEMENTARY TO Silenus' ANSWER: The earliest instance of "zero to hero" I find in Google Books is from 1893, on page 5 of an "Address Before the Second Biennial Convention of the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the Twentieth Annual Convention of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union" by the WCTU president and women's suffragist Frances E Willard:
What is the correct possessive for nouns ending in ‑s? On the use of so-called 'zero genitive', marked by a simple apostrophe in spelling ('), and the 's possessive with nouns ending with an s, Quirk, Greenbaum, Leech and Svartvik specify in A Comprehensive grammar of the English Language (pp 320 321) that:
How do you say 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 in words? Incidentally, numbers are also commonly actually written that way For example, scientists and engineers frequently write large numbers as 1 0 x 10^20 (or sometimes 1 0e20) rather than 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 No need to count the zeroes that way This is commonly referred to as Scientific Notation
numbers - How do you read numbered streets in the US? - English . . . Numbers ending in zeroes may be spoken as if numbers, thus the White House is sixteen hundred Pennsylvania Avenue, but only in extremely rare, highly formal circumstances would one ever say or write one thousand five hundred ninety-three The rest of the address is largely up to personal style The street could be
What are the rules for pronunciation of years in English? The logic apparently lies in grouping the digits in a way that's easy to visualize (mentally) and or pronounce Since there are always two zeroes in nineteen hundred, saying 'hundred' makes sense 2000 has three zeroes, which is visually easier to recognize and split as two and 'thousand' Reg has given an example