"and" in numerical expressions

[Tom Zurinskas]

Think about it.  It has to do with parsing.  It's as though you left off saying the first "one thousand".  Then you say "one," then "one thousand two, one thousand three, one thousand four" etc.  Or else you could persist

one one thousand
two one thousand
three one thousand

but when you reach 30, don't forget to say "one thousand after it".


Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+
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> Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 15:43:19 -0500
> From: bhneed at GMAIL.COM
> Subject: Re: "and" in numerical expressions
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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> Poster: Barbara Need
> Subject: Re: "and" in numerical expressions
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> On 15 May 2009, at 3:16 PM, Tom Zurinskas wrote:
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>>> I count seconds as "one one thousand, two one thousand," etc
>>
>> What's interesting about this series is that it becomes "one
>> thousand four, one thousand five, etc" after a while.
>
> Never has.
>
> Barbara
>
> Barbara Need
> Chicago
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