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

Tristan Alexander McLeay scripsit:

> Personally, I'd interperate 'four thousand nine' to mean four thousand,
> nine hundred and something---I would only expect to here it if the speaker
> was cut off. I'd say 'four thousand and nine' to mean 4009.
The style "five hundred thirty two" and "four thousand nine" is
particular to North America.  I think it was started by a cabal
of elementary-education meisters.

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John Cowan           http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@ccil.org
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