7.12 KEY FUNCTION BRITISH MONEY
£1 = 100 pence (epäsäännöllinen monikko: one penny - two pence)
£ is written before the number, but it’s said after it:
| £1 | a pound/one pound | ||
| £40 | forty pounds | ||
| £500,000 | five hundred thousand pounds/ half a million pounds | ||
| £6,000,000 (or £6m) | six million pounds | ||
| £7.3m | seven point three million pounds | ||
| £8½m | eight and a half million pounds |
p (pence) is written and said after the number. Sometimes the full word "pence" is said, but usually British people use the short form "p" (äänetään pii)
| 1p = one p (one penny) |
| 5p = five p (five pence) |
| 48p = forty-eight p (or forty-eight pence) |
There are many ways of saying £ and p together:
| £5.50 | a) Five pounds fifty p | b) Five pounds fifty pence | c) Five pounds and fifty pence | ||||
| d) Five pounds fifty* | e) Five fifty* |
| £16.79 | a) Sixteen pounds seventy-nine p | b) Sixteen pounds seventy-nine pence | ||||
| c) Sixteen pounds and seventy-nine pence | d) Sixteen pounds seventy-nine* | |||||
| e) Sixteen seventy-nine* |
* These are the most usual forms, but the other forms are also commonly used