Pop Quiz
If you were to spell out numbers, how far do you have to go to get to the letter ‘a’?
one…two…three..
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* The answer is: one thousand! *
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July 17th, 2006 at 1:22 am
I don’t understand…could you please explain por favor? thank you.
July 17th, 2006 at 2:00 am
It you were to write out ever number with letters, you wouldn’t use the letter A in the spelling of a number until you get to the number one thousAnd.
get it?
July 17th, 2006 at 2:13 am
I strongly disagree with ‘one thousand’.
One hundred and one, one hundred and two………
I hate that American habit of dropping the ‘and’. I’m betting most of your kindergarten teachers hate it too.
July 17th, 2006 at 8:23 am
What about the British grammatical irritants such as “coloUr”, “honoUr” and switching the places of “r” and “e” in words like “centre” and “theatre”. Ghastly!
July 17th, 2006 at 11:49 pm
Well, as we supposedly invented the language I would say it’s someone else doing the switching….wouldn’t you!
But back to numbers. Isn’t anyone in the USA going to agree that it’s one hundred AND one etc.?
July 18th, 2006 at 8:30 am
I tried to dig around and see if there is an official spelling of 101. I can find it listed as both one hundred and one and as one hundred one. The jury is still out until I can find a better search string.
March 16th, 2007 at 9:02 am
actually in spanish languages, they drop the and in numbers also… so it’s not just we americans.
example: Twenty-one, gramtically correct in spanish is “twenty AND one” but when you say it, you usually drop the and.. so it goes from “Viente y uno” to just “viente-uno”
but i’m sure nobody will read this, since it’s from last july.