Common questions

How do you say 0800?

How do you say 0800?

Military Time Conversion

12-Hour Civil Time 24-Hour Military Time How To Say Military Time
8:00 a.m. 0800 Zero eight hundred hours
9:00 a.m. 0900 Zero nine hundred hours
10:00 a.m. 1000 Ten hundred hours
11:00 a.m. 1100 Eleven hundred hours

Do Americans say enquiry?

In practice, enquire and enquiry are more common in British English, and inquire and inquiry are more common in US English, for both informal questions and formal investigations.

How do you use inquiry in a sentence?

Examples of inquiry in a Sentence The board ordered an inquiry to determine whether the rules had been followed. Further inquiry showed that he had visited the city twice before. The police are pursuing a new line of inquiry.

Do Americans say Enquiry?

What does the military call midnight?

Just like a 12-hour digital clock, military time is always displayed in four digits. The first two digits represent the hour and the last two digits represent the minutes. 0000 (said “zero-hundred”) is midnight, and 1200 (said “twelve-hundred”) is noon.

What is the IPA phonetic symbol for E?

IPA phonetic symbol [ɛ]. This symbol represents the vowell phoneme in head. /hed/ (broad notation) sounds normally exactly like [hɛd] (narrow notation). Many dictionaries use /ɛ/ instead of /e/. There is some flexibility in broad notation, but narrow notation is more precise. IPA phonetic symbol [e].

What is the phonetic symbol for fiance?

As a phonetic symbol [e] is the last sound of French fiancé [fjɑ̃.se], British English /fiˈɑːnseɪ/, American English /fiːɑːnˈseɪ/. [e] is also heard in Australian English pronunciation of /e/. This means that /hed/ is heard as [hed] in Australian English and as [hɛd] in British and American English. IPA phonetic symbol [x].

Is there a dictionary guide to pronunciation?

Guide to Pronunciation. Pronunciation is not an intrinsic component of the dic- tionary. For some languages, such as Spanish, Swahili, and Finnish, the correspondence between orthography and pronunciation is so close that a dictionary need only spell a word correctly to indicate its pronunciation. Modern English, however, displays no such

How do I use the hash symbol and the asterisk symbol?

The hash symbol (#) and the asterisk (or star) (*) symbol are often used in automated instructions, e.g. when you phone a call centre using a touch-tone phone: Enter your sixteen digit card number followed by the hash key (#). Thankyou. Please press the star key now (*). Note, the hash key (#) may be called the pound key in the USA.