# English (US, UK)

Language-specific rules apply to:

· Dates

· Hours and minutes

· Street, avenue, and drive

· Numbered street names; for example, 29 42 Street becomes twenty-nine forty-second street

· Phone numbers are spoken as digits, with appropriate pauses

· Dr. becomes doctor

· St. becomes saint

· Two-letter state names are pronounced in full; for example MA 01749 becomes Massachusetts zero one seven four nine.

· Postal zip codes within a mail address are spoken one digit at a time

· URL addresses are spoken one character at a time

· File names are spoken one character at a time

· In compound words, prefixes may be broken apart from the second word

· Days of the week

· Directions on the compass are spoken in full; for example 30 W becomes thirty west

· Roman numerals following a name are spoken as ordinal numbers; for example John Doe III becomes John Doe the third

· Credit card numbers are spoken appropriately, for example, 6011 4134 3621 4172 becomes six zero one one, four one three four, three six two one, four one seven two.

· In a word written with mixed uppercase and lowercase letters, each uppercase letter begins a new word; for example, TextToSpeech becomes text to speech

· Combinations of numbers and letters are broken into numbers and individual letters; for example two34five becomes T W O thirty-four F I V E; XF302QB becomes XF three hundred and two QB.