How do you usually say this number: 1,200?

TOUR GUIDE: …and on this spot, the Magna Carta was signed!

TOURIST: When was that?

TOUR GUIDE: 1215.

TOURIST: Oh, darn - we missed it by twenty minutes!

Psychiatrist to soldier: “So, when did you last have sex?”

Soldier: “Err, about 2020.”

Psychiatrist: “That’s a long time ago.”

Soldier, looking at his watch: “Not really. It’s only 2045 now.”

In English, I’d usually go with “twelve hundred”

In the Waali language of Ghana, which uses a mix of base ten and base twenty, two options would be “Thousand and two-hundred” (tiisi aneng boara) or “two-hundred six” (boara bayo)