"A/one hundred dollars"

[Rachel Adams]

Hello.

How do you BrE speakers pronounce $100 and €100 "A hundred dollars" or "one hundred dollars", "one hundred euros" or "a hundred euros"?

 

[Rachel Adams]

Both are OK. We normally say 'a' in conversation, using 'one' only if we want to make it clear that it's one, not two or three.

But before "pound" you don't use "a". Am I right? I was trying to find the thread in which it was mentioned. If I remember correctly "a" before "pound" is used only when the price is €1 but not £1.45. This is pronounced as "one pound forty-five. Not "a pound forty-five".

 

[Rover_KE]

You are right.

Again, Rachel, your thread title didn't need quotation marks.

It would have needed them if your title had been Do you say "A/one hundred dollars"?

 

[Rachel Adams]

You are right.

Again, Rachel, your thread title didn't need quotation marks.

It would have needed them if your title had been Do you say "A/one hundred dollars"?

Oh, I must have misunderstood. OK. I will take it into account next time.

 

[emsr2d2]

We say "a pound" if the price is exactly £1. We don't use "a" if there are any pence after it.

£1 = one pound/a pound
£1.50 = one pound fifty (not "a pound fifty")

 

[Rachel Adams]

Both are OK. We normally say 'a' in conversation, using 'one' only if we want to make it clear that it's one, not two or three.

In this sentence from English File "After 100 metres turn right." In the same way both "one hundred" or "a hundred" are correct, aren't they? Or does it depend on context?

 

[emsr2d2]

Some speakers would say "After a hundred metres ...", some would say "After one hundred metres ...". There is no fixed rule.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

Both are OK. We normally say 'a' in conversation, using 'one' only if we want to make it clear that it's one, not two or three.

It's the same in the US.

 

[Tdol]

£1.50 = one pound fifty (not "a pound fifty")

Or one-fifty.