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

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?

Clint


--- John Cowan <cowan@...> wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
> John Cowan           http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
>         cowan@ccil.org
> Please leave your values        |       Check your
> assumptions.  In fact,
>    at the front desk.           |          check
> your assumptions at the door.
>      --sign in Paris hotel      |            --Miles
Vorkosigan


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