"and" in numerical expressions (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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> Amazingly, I must report that no one in this forum was instructed in
> grammar/elementary/grade/primary school how to say numbers.
>

To whom must you make such a report?  And will it go on my permanent
record?

Seriously, you are jumping to a wrong conclusion.  I was instructed in
school how to say numbers -- I just wasn't instructed to do so in the
arbitrary way you prefer.


>
> Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+
> see truespel.com
>

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