In South African English, we would normaly use the and like 102 is one hundred and two, 1234 is one thousand two hundred and thirty four. Regards, Willem On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, Gary Cramblitt wrote: > On Wednesday 23 August 2006 09:19, Jonathan Duddington wrote: >> In article <200608230838.01351.garycramblitt at comcast.net>, >> >> Gary Cramblitt <garycramblitt at comcast.net> wrote: >>> I live in U.S. When I was in grade school, I was taught that >>> inserting "and" into whole numbers is incorrect, especially when >>> speaking money (or writing checks). "and" should be used in place >>> of the decimal point. $168.12 should be spoken "one hundred sixty >>> eight dollars and twelve cents". >> >> Interesting. It must be an American thing then :-) > > Yes, but one hears it spoken incorrectly all the time (with the extra "and"), > so I don't think anyone would object if you left them in. > >> >> How should "102", "112", "1002", and "1023" be spoken? Do any of those >> include an "and"? > > No. "one hundred two", "one hundred twelve", "one thousand two", "one > thousand twenty-three". > > I don't feel strongly about this issue either way. Do what you think is > right. > > -- > Gary Cramblitt (aka PhantomsDad) > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- This message is subject to the CSIR's copyright, terms and conditions and e-mail legal notice. Views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the views of the CSIR. CSIR E-mail Legal Notice http://mail.csir.co.za/CSIR_eMail_Legal_Notice.html CSIR Copyright, Terms and Conditions http://mail.csir.co.za/CSIR_Copyright.html For electronic copies of the CSIR Copyright, Terms and Conditions and the CSIR Legal Notice send a blank message with REQUEST LEGAL in the subject line to CallCentre at csir.co.za. This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks Transtec Computers for their support.
