This sentence is from my book. The sentence is about Serbian tennis player Bojana Jovanovski. How do you pronounce 3-6 6-4 6-1 in this context? Unfortunately, the day finished badly for Bojana because she lost the match 3-6, 6-4, 6-1. Answer Tennis officials/commentators say Three six, six four, six one (short for three games to … Read more
Long story short I need to figure out how to verbalize this equation: Answer I would read it as follows. Note that the dashes (-) are hyphens showing connection between spoken terms, not minus signs; I have spelled out "minus" where I would say it. Letters on their own are pronounced as single letters (i.e. … Read more
Is POTUS pronounced letter by letter: P,O,T,U,S? Or is it pronounced as /ˈpəʊ.təs/? Nancy Pelosi tweeted: Building Back Better means investing in the American people, building up our infrastructure and creating good-paying jobs for the future. @POTUS’ transformative American Jobs Plan is a blueprint for a better future. Source: Twitter Answer It’s pronounced as a … Read more
WIP (work in progress) is a commonly used acronym. But what is the correct way to pronounce it? Letter by letter seems clunky. Answer The proper way to say it is /work in progress/. You can use the acronym for written texts, but there is little harm in speaking the words in full. This approach … Read more
How would you read ‘1593 129th St SE Bluebird CA 92193’? Is it ‘one-five-nine-three, one hundred twenty ninth’? Or is it ‘fifteen hundred ninety three, one hundred twenty ninth’? Answer There’s no single correct way to read a street address aloud. Every person has a particular style they prefer, and the same person might use … Read more
Are the following usages correct in BrE? £1.01 One pound one. One pound and one pence. One pound one pence. One pound and one. One one $1.01 One dollar one. One dollar and one cent. One dollar one cent. One dollar and one. One one €1.01 One euro one. One euro and one cent. One … Read more
Even though this question is about too basic a thing, I’d like to ask due to the significance it holds in math. And this question might have a duplication issue as in other questions like Why do so many people say "equals to" in maths? similar topics were dealt with. But as there is no … Read more
I’ve found online translators like Microsoft Bing Translator could be used in place of typing. Just read your text to the translator in Standard English and it would type it out for you. I read the following to the translator. It recognized me most of the time. But I don’t know how to pronounce FAQs. … Read more
How do you pronounce 1273 here? One, two, seven, three? Efficacy and Safety of the mRNA-1273 SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Published: December 30, 2020 Source: New England Journal of Medicine Answer If you want to pronounce it the way the experts in the industry would, including the scientists and clinicians who developed, researched, and actually named it, … Read more
When people (like news anchors, for instance) speak about a quote, they often say "quote" at the beginning and "unquote" or maybe "end quote" at the end of the quote. Do you also pronounce round/square brackets and dash when they are included in a written sentence? Do you say something like "parenthesis" at the beginning … Read more
