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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 19:41:39 +0000 (UTC)
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Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> wrote:
(snip, someone wrote)

>>> "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.

> That's not "and" inside a number name, but between a number name 
> and a numeral representation. Different case.

Yes, but it only works if you don't put an "and" inside the number.
(That is, "and" is the delimiter for the dollar amount.)

-- glen