I guess Americans never watch Bond films. "Who's this Dublo Seven guy?"

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Naw, that's just the only point of reference. So if you heard someone rattle off a double number you'd just think they were making some poorly thought out Bond reference.

Like, I imagine there are people who actually enjoy shaken Martinis, but you can't get away with saying that.

Huh? Are these people just especially dumb or something?

The physics professor and the doctor of linguistics? Yeah, probably.

In Manhattan there's "One Madison Ave" building (long and bloody history of its construction and lawsuits.) But its actual address is 23 East 22nd Street.

I recently got into it with someone because they kept saying "one hundred hundreds"

"Ten-thousand?"
"NO! One hundred hundreds?"

(in my brain now) "hmmm 100x100=10,000 maybe he means 100 and 100? 200? no... wtf? 100 100? 100,000?"

"One hundred thousand?"
"Yeah...*eye roll* what's wrong with you?"
"ME?!?!"

I'm sorry but "fifty-three hundred" hard for them to grasp? Two thousand AND one sounds odd? Houses whose numbers are lower than 100? - shocking! Not like SUBURBS have house numbers like '7' or '1'. Buildings called "house"? What sheltered lives did these people live? Do they really think any of this is specific to England?

Maybe drive out of your own neighbourhood once in awhile...

I thought this video was going to be about the confusion of numbers like billion, trillion, quadrillion (those ARE different between NA and UK). Instead it's herp-derp these Engo's are silly!

I've noticed more and more "fancier" buildings in the states like to write out their address rather than with numerals, even if it's not a small number.

For example, Five Twenty Pine St.

Our brains are set up to understand the language we hear around us. If you grew up in America you'll be used to the american language constructs. They'll be familiar to your brain. If you say 53 hundred to an american they will instantly know what you mean, because it's only ever meant one thing to you. But say it to an english person and it'll throw them. They'll understand what it means, but in the flow of a conversation it provides a small momentary stumble, and that can mentally trip the brain up.

If you walk down a flight of stairs and there's one stair in the middle that is a slightly different size it'll likely trip you up unless you've been warned about it. It's not that you can't walk, and it's not that you can't negotiate stairs properly, it's just a little thing that's slightly out of the ordinary.

English people are used to hearing the low numbers (I'd guess anything up to 2000, don't know why, it's just like that) said as 12 hundred or 15 hundred or whatever, but we just don't use that number construction for anything higher. We do say 53 thousand, or 70 thousand, so when we hear 53 hundred the brain is expecting 53 thousand but then it hears hundred and that trips it up.

Nothing to do with being stupid or clever, it's just the way your brain works.

As for the 000 in the number, I'd say that as zero zero zero, but 00 I'd say double 'o' (not double zero).

The house numbers must be a London thing, I've never come across this myself in the midlands.

Good point...but then...why is it double-O and not double-0?

This video could have used an editor, as in somebody who knows when to leave things out. I thought this was going to be interesting but I made it through the first 3 minutes then gave up. Having an animated stick figure relate your ponderous ramblings doesn't make them interesting.

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