Timeline for Placement of commas and 'and' in English numerals
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| Jun 11, 2013 at 14:22 | comment | added | J.R. | @OldPro: I would pronounce the movie title "One Hundred and One Dalmations" but I would write on my check "One Hundred One Dollars". | |
| Jun 10, 2013 at 20:50 | comment | added | Old Pro | @Tristan, yes I'm speaking about US usage, and here we sometimes use "and" as you suggest is common in the UK ("101 Dalmatians" comes to mind, nearly always spoken as "one hundred and one Dalmatians"), but generally the "and" is optional and not used when writing out large numbers. In fact, it's not used for a decimal point either except when talking about currency; "point" is the more usual word. | |
| Jun 10, 2013 at 12:16 | comment | added | TrevorD | Responding to the illustration of "and" possibly denoting a decimal point, if I were writing the sum £12,120.24 on a cheque, I would write Twelve thousand, one hundred & twenty pounds and twenty-four pence. So, yes, I would use "and" at the decimal point, but I would name the larger unit (pounds, dollars, etc.) before the "and". (I accept that the "and" in one hundred and twenty is a US/UK difference.) I would never use and alone to denote a decimal point. | |
| Jun 10, 2013 at 11:09 | comment | added | Tristan | Old Pro, there seems to be a USA/UK difference here, regarding use of the word and. In England and the rest of the UK, it is not about decimal points. In the UK, 1024 would be written out and pronounced as "One thousand and twenty-four". 101024 would be written out and pronounced as "One hundred and one thousand, and twenty-four". | |
| Jun 10, 2013 at 9:54 | comment | added | J.R. | Odd, I've never seen commas used in the "amount" part of a check. I found 3 examples online; none of them used a comma. See for yourself. I saw one with a dash, but that looked odd to me, too. Then again, I don't write too many checks that big. | |
| Jun 10, 2013 at 6:53 | history | edited | Old Pro | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 10, 2013 at 6:47 | history | answered | Old Pro | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
