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Plus généralement, un sujet peut être repris, exprimé deux fois, pour des raisons grammaticales (par ex. l'interrogative avec un sujet autre que il/ce/on : « La vérité est-elle toujours bonne à dire ? ») ou par clarté/expressivité (LBU14 §237). Dans ce dernier cas, « pour insister sur le sujet, notamment pour marquer une opposition, on le reprend sous la ...
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For a number that's a magnitude (as opposed to a mere sequence of digits like a phone number), you cannot omit words like "hundred" and "thousand". The normal way to say 1417 is "mille quatre cent dix-sept". Numbers between 1100 and 1999 are sometimes pronounced with a 2:2 grouping, but with cent after the first group: "quatorze cent dix-sept". This is ...
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This common habit of enunciating numbers in groups of two has been forever used in the case of telephone numbers (réf.1, réf. 2). It is not usual in the case of years; for instance in the last century "la guerre de quatorze-dix-huit" refers to the war from 1914 to 1918. For house numbers as well as for years, this habit of yours does not correspond to ...
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