British money has a pound ( £ ) and a pence (p ), 1 pound =100 pence.
£ is written before the number, but it’s said after it:
- £ 1 —a pound/one pound
- £ 20—twenty pounds
- £ 100—a hundred pounds/one hundred pounds
p (pence ) is written after the number, and said after it :
- 50p—fifty pence
- 76p—seventy-six pence
£ and p together can be said in different ways:
£ 10.50 —
- ten pounds fifty pence
- ten pounds fifty
- ten fifty
£ 21.99 —
- twenty-one pounds ninety-nine pence
- twenty-one pounds ninety-nine
- twenty-one ninety-nine