Tens and Units Blues Song

The main units of numbers in English are:

1	10	100	1,000	1,000,000
one	ten	hundred	thousand	million
1,000,000,000		1,000,000,000,000
billion		trillion

In the song, you will hear and see the word zillion. This word is not a real number; it just means "a very, very large number"!

There are several ways that we can convey the idea of no quantity, or no number, or "0": we can say zero (or just oh). And we can say nought. You can hear "zero" and "nought" in the song above.

Transcript:

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.

Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one.
Now they're gone -- zero!
And that's nought!
And I'll share a thought...

Ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty...
sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety, one hundred.

Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one.
When they're gone -- zero!

Tens And Units Blues Song

One, ten, hundred, thousand, million, billion, trillion, zillion.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine...
then there's ten -- again!

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.

Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one.
Now they're gone -- zero!
Nought!