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Counting and Language

Posted By: Tom Keith
Date: Sunday, 24 May 2015, at 1:16 p.m.

In Response To: Counting and Language (Ray Kershaw)

Do you say "three fourths" in USA? I think "three quarters" is almost always used in UK.

That was my thought too -- this must be a regionalism. In Canada (Toronto in my case), "three quarters" is the usual way of saying 3/4.

Another regional difference between the US and Canada is the naming of grades in school. US speakers use ordinal numbers (e.g., "third grade," "fourth grade," etc.). In Canada it is more common to say "grade 3" or "grade 4."

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