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

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.


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