Re: USAGE: Well, at least he created numbers.....

From: "John Cowan" <jcowan@...>
> Clint Jackson Baker wrote:
>
> > Then how would the Englishman, Australian, Nigerian,
> > et al say those numbers?  I don't know of any
> > distinction among English speakers, except that some
> > use "and" to separate the tens and ones from
> > everything else, eg "five hundred and thirty two",
> > "four thousand and nine".  Is this what you mean?
>
>
> Just so, and I should have said as much.  I think
> it was around 1950 when the "one hundred twenty three"
> style, without the traditional "and", became commonly
> taught in North America.
Well, when I was in school, I was taught that "and" goes for the decimal point:
four thousand and nine [tenths].

    *Muke!

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