Re: [OT Why GB English is different] Re: Mozilla firefox en-gb
On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 07:50:18PM +1200, cr wrote:
> On Tue, 25 May 2004 07:47, William Ballard wrote:
> > On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 02:30:22PM -0400, Daniel Barclay wrote:
> > > 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."
> >
> > What digit corresponds to "and"?
>
> And what digit corresponds to 'hundred' ? (Or 'thousand' or 'million' yadda
> yadda...)
>
> Numbers are not spoken the way they are written, either in English or any
> other language I know of. (Other than telephone numbers and serial numbers,
> that is)
>
> And in English (I mean 'British English', though that term always strikes me
> as tautological if not oxymoronic), 'and' is invariably used between the
> 'hundreds' and the 'tens' figure, as in 'two hundred AND thirty-seven'.
Eh. Go figure. There's no right or wrong. My teachers taught me that
was incorrect, low-class, common.
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