Re: French liaisons (was something else)
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, February 8, 2004, 5:05 |
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On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 09:54:22PM -0500, Tristan McLeay wrote:
> For the record, 'two dollars fifty' is perfectly fine in Australia.
Not here. That sounds simply bizarre to me.
> In fact, to my ear, 'two dollars and fifty cents' sounds hypercorrect and
> certainly not something I'd expect to hear.
Well, "two dollars and fifty cents" is a more formal register, but it's
still heard fairly often here. Far and away, though, the vast, vast, vast
majority of the time what you hear is "two fifty".
-Mark