Another “four fifty one” man here.
Same thing for Boeing airplanes. “seven forty seven” not “seven four seven”.
Hijack: I don’t recall ever hearing seven forty seven. It’s seven four seven to me. But it’s an MD eighty eight.
It’s a temperature. When you read your thermometer or set your thermostat, how do you describe it? That’s how you’re going to say the book’s title.
Well, no. If my thermometer reached 451 degrees, I probably wouldn’t be describing it at all.
If I were telling somebody a setting for, say, an oven, I would most likely say to set it at “four fifty one,” or set it at “four hundred and fifty one degrees Fahrenheit.” I would never use the format “Fahrenheit [followed by number]” in speech or print except in a quotation or reference to the title of a work.
Four five one.
It’s a “Boeing seven four seven” to me as well.
I wonder if Quartz is right, and it’s different on either side of the pond?
While I’ve heard “seven four seven,” I’m slightly more familiar with “seven forty seven” and that’s the wording I use for 747.
The caption for that video says “A Cinematic trailer I made for english class,” so it can hardly be considered authoritative.