Re: [OT Why GB English is different] Re: Mozilla firefox en-gb

[Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk>]

On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 17:57, William Ballard wrote:
> Do you also say one million and fourteen thousand and two hundred and 
> thirty seven?

one million, fourteen thousand, two hundred and thirty-seven.

I remember doing school exercises when I was 7 on writing out numbers in
words.  

But to demonstrate that the use of "and" in numbers is not unAmerican
either:

        "Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this
        continent..."

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