Denny Esterline wrote:
>>>>Yes, but if you live in a 2 1/2nd world country [...]
>>>
>>>How would this be read aloud? Especially the "2 1/2nd" part?
>>
>>
>>With great difficulty.  :)
>>
>>The twenty four and a halfth century!
> 
> 
> 
> Yet one more problem that wouldn't exist if we could get everybody on board
> the metric system. Since we all know that the conversion between metric and
> (old) English is 2.54 cm per inch and since 2 1/2 is close to 2.54... Now it
> becomes a metric 1st world country!!! See - metric is better.
> 
> -Denny (who is five feet eleven and one half inches tall :-)

I was taught to say say the ordinal then the fraction

so   2 1/2 as ordinal reads  "second and a half"

Remember "Duck Dodgers in the Twenty fourth and a half century" :-)

Jim

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