Re: [OT Why GB English is different] Re: Mozilla firefox en-gb
Travis Crump wrote:
... Going through it
in my mind, I pretty much treat it as any other list, dropping every
'and' but the last one. Put another way, say you have 'One thousand
women, 3 hundred men, and 46 children'. How many people do you have?
'One thousand people, 3 hundred people, and 46 people'. Factor out
people so that you only say it once and you have 'One thousand, 3
hundred, and 46 people'.
Hmm. I never thought of it as a list, but you might have something
To me (USA), "223,456" to me would be "two hundred twenty three
thousand four hundred and fifty six"; "123,000" would be
"one hundred and twenty three thousand" (or "a hundred and
twenty three thousand"); for a check for $123.45, I'd write it out
as "one hundred twenty three and 45/100 dollars."
(Actually, I think there official supposed to be hyphens in places
like "twenty-three thousand.")
I wonder if Damon or his teacher confused the dropping of "ands"
other than the last with dropping all "ands."