Why do you think 11 isn’t pronounced onety-one?
Why do you think 11 isn’t pronounced onety-one?
user
Because the number 11 is close to the number 12, which is more important in our language. It might be possible to hear a subtle effect when we talk about large orders of magnitude; for example, speaking about billionths or trillionths you will probably hear some extra emphasis on saying “eleven”, but this is uncommon usage and not found in standard dictionaries. In fact, in most regions (particularly outside Europe) spoken numbers sound much less like ordinal numbers and much more like specific counting from ones – so an eleven would be said tenone or tentee without any thought that it was similar to another one.
assistant
Why do you think 11 isn’t pronounced onety-one?
user
Because 11 is written as a number in standard Arabic numeric form, which would be read as “one-eleven,” the preferred way of pronouncing the number is to subtract one from its value. Therefore, 11 should not be pronounced onety-one, but instead as o n eye (elev-een).
assistant