How to read 2019/20

[Winwin2011]

The year of assessment of 2019/20 is from 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020.

Can anybody tell me how to read 2019/20 in English?

 

[Rover_KE]

That's a good question. We commonly say 'the nineteen fourteen-eighteen war' and 'the twenty sixteen-seventeen football season', but 'the twenty nineteen-twenty year of assessment' sounds very odd.

I'd say 'the year of assessment twenty nineteen-twenty twenty', and in writing place the hyphen thus.

Let's see what others think.

 

[emsr2d2]

When I see this on the cover of an academic diary (just an example), I read it as "twenty nineteen twenty".

 

[Winwin2011]

When I see this on the cover of an academic diary (just an example), I read it as "twenty nineteen twenty".

Is it possible to read as "Two thousand nineteen twenty"?

 

[emsr2d2]

That's probably OK in AmE. In BrE, you'd need "and" between "two thousand" and "nineteen".

 

[GoesStation]

Is it possible to read it as "Two thousand nineteen twenty"?

I wouldn't, because my listeners would have a hard time understanding it. I'd say either twenty-nineteen to twenty or, to be completely clear, twenty-nineteen to twenty-twenty.

 

[jutfrank]

We say twenty nineteen twenty.

It's very important, however, to get the intonation right between nineteen and the second twenty to show that those words are not connected.

 

[Winwin2011]

For 2020/21, is it possible to say it as twenty twenty twenty one?

 

[GoesStation]

For 2020/21, is it possible to say it as "twenty-twenty/twenty-one"?

Yes. A native speaker would use intonation to convey the connections between the numbers. You can also read it as twenty-twenty slash twenty-one​ to tell the reader exactly how the numbers appear in print.

Always mark text that you're asking about with quotation marks or italics.

 

[Winwin2011]

Yes. A native speaker would use intonation to convey the connections between the numbers. You can also read it as twenty-twenty slash twenty-one​ to tell the reader exactly how the numbers appear in print.

Always mark text that you're asking about with quotation marks or italics.

Hi Goes Station,

Per your previous reply on May 5 , is it also possible to read it as "twenty-twenty to twenty-one"? As a non-native speaker, I think it is easier for me to say it.

 

[GoesStation]

Per your previous reply on May 5 , is it also possible to read it as "twenty-twenty to twenty-one"? As a non-native speaker, I think it is easier for me to say it.

I think that's also OK.

 

[Winwin2011]

I think that's also OK.

Is it also possible to read it as "two thousand twenty to twenty-one"?

 

[GoesStation]

Is it also possible to read it as "two thousand twenty to twenty-one"?

Yes.

 

[GoesStation]

Is it also possible to read it as "two thousand twenty to twenty-one"?

… but you'd have to enunciate very carefully to make it clear that you weren't saying two thousand twenty-two/twenty-one. I'd advise learners to use one of the other ways of saying this.

 

[Yankee]

Personally, I would pronounce it as 'twenty nineteen, twenty twenty'.