In this E2 English video, I'm going to teach you how to spell every single number in English.
Before we get started and learn how to spell all the numbers in English from 1 to 999,000,000,000,
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So most people think that English spelling is completely crazy and doesn't follow any
logic at all. This isn't true, it's just a little bit crazy. Most English spelling is
actually very logical. Take for example, the sound 'W' as in woman, the letter W is the
most common way of spelling the 'W' sound, as in woman or water, or walrus, or even the
verb wipe. So most spellings of the 'W' sound, you can be confident to write the letter W.
But there are actually three other spellings of the 'W' sound in English like wh, as in
when, or wheel or whip. And then there are a few spellings that use the letter U. Usually
after the letter Q, as in quick, quilt, or quirky. And then there's O, as in one. So
English spelling feels a bit crazy, but it's actually quite consistent. Almost all of the
word sounds in English are spelled with a 'W'. And this rule holds for all the other
24 consonant sounds in English as well. There is always one spelling that is way more common
than the rest. If you need help with your spelling in English, and you want to learn
every single sound letter relationship, then you need to sign up to E2English.com and check
out our free spelling course. Click the link in the description below to get started. So
let's turn our attention now to the spelling of numbers. And we'll start with the spelling
of 1 to 10 and we'll look at them in depth. These numbers use some of those rarer, weird
spellings because they're old words. And once we know how to spell the numerals 1 through
10, then we can pretty much spell any number all the way to 999,000,000,000. So we'll have
to spend a bit of time on 1 to 10. Then we'll accelerate from there. As we saw you spell
the number 1 as O, N, E. And this is weird. You'll just have to memorise it. And what
about number 2? How do you spell 2? You spell that number, T, W, O. So the 'T' sound in
two is spelled with a T, which makes sense. But then there's the vowel sound 'Ooh' and
this is spelled W, O, what's going on? Admittedly, this spelling of vowel sounds in English are
a bit Skoo-wiff, a bit crazy and weird. Remember that there are 20 vowel sounds in English.
Vowels are the sounds that you make that don't use any part of your mouth like a, e , i,
o ,u, as well as A, E, I, O, U, and then there are some combined vowel sounds as well. I'm
not going to lie, vowel sounds are a bit crazy in English. And I apologise for this. Check
out our spelling course for help. We'll teach you everything you need to know there. Let's
move on and learn how to spell the number 3. And this is logical. That 'TH' sound is
spelled as TH as usual. Then there is the REE sound, which is R E E. So that's the first
number that actually has a clear sound and letter relationship. What about number 4?
To spell 4 you start with the first sound, which is spelled with an F. Great, but then
something a bit weird happens. We have O, U, R to spell the or part. So it's F, O, U,
R. So that one's kind of close. It's kind of logical. It would be better if it were
just F, O, R. For some reason, and I'm sure there is a historical reason. It's spelled
O, U, R, so memorise it. And coming up, we'll look at how to spell 14 and how to spell 40
which is a bit different. Five is a good one, the spelling is F, I, V, E. Why put an E on
the end? Why not just F, I, V? Well, that would be fiv. In English spelling,
you put an E on the end of the word to change the sound of the vowel. Have a look at these
words, fat, fate, rat, rate, Tim, time, pin, pine. Can you see how the vowel sound changes
from a short vowel to a long vowel. So five actually makes sense because you put the E
on the end to extend the sound of the vowel. As I mentioned before, if you're interested
in learning all the rules of English spelling, all the ins and outs so you can be confident
in your spelling, and not rely on a spell checker, then check out E2english.com and
sign up to our free spelling course. Let's look at the number 6. Now. It's easy. 6 is
spelled S, I, X. And this is logical, no crazy spelling here. The number seven is spelled
as you would guess, S E, V, E, N. Each of those sounds are represented by each of those
letters. Nothing crazy there. But what about 8? Well, this one, I'm sorry to tell you is
completely crazy. 8 is spelled E, I, G, H, T. Why? Well, it's old. It comes from Old
English, which comes from old German, which is related to Dutch and German from an Indo-
It doesn't matter. I'm sorry. I wish eight were spelled A, T, E. This would make a lot
of sense. But this spelling is used for the past tense of eat. I ate. So there you go.
All right, number 9. Remember the long vowel that we saw for five? Well, we have another
long vowel here for 9. 9 is spelled N, I, N, E. If it were just N, I, N, it would be
pronounced as nin. But it's nine because it has the E on the end of the word, which lengthens
the sound of the vowel. And 10 is easy T, E, N, 10. At least that's logical. Alright,
so we've learned how to spell from 1 to 10. And that's the challenging part. Let's now
go through the teams a little bit faster. What's the spelling of 11? 11 is spelled E,
L, E, V, E, N. And that's pretty logical. What's the spelling of 12? 12 is spelled T,
W, E, L, V, E, which is also pretty good, but a little bit tricky. Then we have the
teens. 13. T,H,I,R,T, E, E, N. What is the spelling of 14? F, O, U, R, T, E, E, N. 15.
F, I, F, T, E, E, N. 16. S, I, X, T, E, E, N. 17. S, E, V, E, N, T, E, E, N. Our favourite,
18. E, I, G, H, T, E, E, N. Notice that we drop one of the T's there. And 19, N, I, N,
E, T, E, E, N. All right. So that's cool. We now can spell every word from 1 to 19.
So now let's do 20 to 90. So it's 20. T, W, E, N, T, Y. What is the spelling of 30? T,
H, I, R, T, Y? What is the spelling of 40? F, O, R, T, Y. Stop! Wait, wait, wait. I said
that 4 was F, O, U, R and the spelling of 14 is F, O, U, R, T, E, E, N. But now I'm
telling you that 40 is F O R... No U. T, Y. What's going on here? The correct spelling
of 40 is F, O, R, T, Y without the U and this is for all types of English. British, American,
wherever, don't add the U. So it's 4. F, O, U, R. 14, F, O, U, R, T, E, E, N and 40. F,
O, R, T, Y. All right, let's keep going 50. F, I, F, T, Y. Notice the F, I, F here. 60.
S, I, X, T, Y. 70. S, E, V, E, N, T, Y. 80. E, I, G, H, T, Y and 90. N, I, N, E, T, Y.
Okay, that's pretty straightforward. But
what about if you want to spell a number like 46 or 72 or 93? Well, it's forty six. Two
words. F, O, R, T, Y, S, I, X. 72. Two words. S, E V, E, N, T, Y, T, W, O and 93. Two words.
N, I, N E, T, Y, T, H, R, E, E. Alright, you're doing great, you can now combine numbers to
spell all of those different numbers in English, you can now spell the numbers from 1 to 99.
And if you want to spell cardinal numbers like first, second, third or spell 12th, or
30th, hit subscribe. Incredible, but what about 100 to 100,000? To spell 100, you write
ONE HUNDRED. 200. TWO HUNDRED. 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900 as well as 345, 999. And
for 1000 You simply write ONE THOUSAND. For 87,564. You write Eight Thousand Five Hundred
and Sixty Four. And to write 100,000 You simply write ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND. Whoa, this is
awesome. We're now writing six digit numbers, and you can be confident in their spelling.
Let me now give you a little bit of a challenge. Can you spell the number 999,999,999? Pause
the video and see how you go. Here it is here. This is the spelling of that massive number.
Notice the use of the words and here. Alright, drumroll! How do you spell 1,000,000,000..
It's easy. One BILLION and that's it. You've done it. You can now spell all the numbers
in English from 1 to 1 billion. And you could if you want go all the way up to 999 billion.
I mean, if you want, because once you understand how to spell the first set of numbers from
1 to 10 it all kind of makes sense. So let's recap the most important spelling's in English
1, one. 2. two. 3. Three. 4. four. 5. five. 6. six. 7. seven. 8. eight. 9 nine. You need
to memorise 11. Eleven. and 12. Twelve. and the teens. And then you have 20, 30, 40 How
do you spell 40? Remember to drop the U. 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100. Thousand, million, billion.
Oh, and I almost forgot a 1,000,000,000,000. Trillion. So you can spell every single number
in English in words, well done. But let me now give you a little quiz.
Don't look at the comments below just yet. I'm going to show you a number. And I want
you to write it down word for word and then put it into the comments below. See how you
go. And while you're there, click like. here's the number here 562,169,874,653,122. Pause
the video as you write out the words and spell them all correctly. Don't cheat, see if you
can do it. Then when you're done, check the comments to see the answer
I'm sure you know how to spell numbers in Hindi, or numbers in Spanish, or numbers in
Chinese or whatever your first language is. Now you can spell all the numbers in English.
My name is Jay. I'll see you soon.