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From: glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu>
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Subject: Re: number and words
Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 05:49:09 +0000 (UTC)
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Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> wrote:

(snip)

> From <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_numerals>:
> "Note that in American English, many students are taught not to 
> use the word and anywhere in the whole part of a number, 
> so it is not used before the tens and ones. It is instead 
> used as a verbal delimiter when dealing with compound numbers. 

Specifically, for writing the number of dollars on checks.
(Maybe different on cheques.) The cents (xx/100) comes after the and.

> Thus, instead of "three hundred and seventy-three", one would 
> say "three hundred seventy-three". For details, see American and 
> British English differences."

-- glen