How to read the number [UNSCR 1695]

[paddycarol]

1. "Such action would logically go well beyond UNSCR 1695"
Here should 1695 be read as " 16 hundred and 95 "or just "1-6-9-5"
2. What about "Elizabeth ii"

 

[Old Novice]

I don't know if there is a standard protocol for UN resolutions, but in ordinary AE speech, I'd probably say UNSCR [sixteen ninety-five], the same as the year 1695.

For numbers of kings and queens, we'd normally convert it to "Elizabeth the second" (and "Henry the eighth", etc.)

 

[Brioche]

1. "Such action would logically go well beyond UNSCR 1695"
Here should 1695 be read as " 16 hundred and 95 "or just "1-6-9-5"
2. What about "Elizabeth ii"

I presume UNSCR = United Nations Security Council Resolution.
I would read it as 1-6-9-5, may be 16-95.

Elizabeth II is Elizabeth the second.
All monarchs' names follow this pattern.
Louis XIV = Louis the fourteenth.

In the US some families name their sons after their fathers for three or four generations, producing names such as John Thomas Smith III [the third] or Hyram Ulysses Grant IV [the fourth].

However, the abbreviation for Cunard ship Queen Elizabeth II is QE2, and it is read as Que Ee Two.

 

[paddycarol]

Many thanks for Old Novice and Brooche. By the way, it's true "UNSCR = United Nations Security Council Resolution".

 

[. 1]

For UNSCR 1695 I would enunciate each interger as 1-6-5-9.
For monarchs it would be Elizabeth The Second.

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