William Ballard wrote:
On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 10:22:31AM -0400, Daniel B. wrote:I wonder if Damon or his teacher confused the dropping of "ands" other than the last with dropping all "ands."My teacher used to tell us: where do you see an "and" written there?
Huh? Written where? And is your teacher's comment anything other than idiotic? In "123" there is no "one" or "twenty three" written there, but that doesn't mean those words aren't used in pronouncing the number written as "123." Daniel