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

Which would explain why my horrible first-grade
teacher would go into conniptions when I inserted the
"and" (of course, there were a lot of ways she was
screwed up...)
Clint


--- John Cowan <jcowan@...> wrote:
> 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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