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Yeah, as far as I can tell it’s normal in America to say 615 as “six hundred fifteen”, whereas the rest of the anglosphere would say “six hundred and fifteen”.

The fact that the line break happened to be right where the word “and” was missing probably made it even harder to parse correctly.

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aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Funny enough, I was taught that including the “and” was explicitly wrong in first grade! (American here)

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- radix@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Me too. I still don’t know why.
  
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- ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  TIL it’s not explicitly wrong
  
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criitz@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Im American. I might read the number 615 as “six hundred fifteen” in some cases. Like if I was counting.

But I would not say “six hundred fifteen bananas”, I would say “six hundred and fifteen bananas”

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CleoTheWizard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
To note, we don’t say “sixhundredfifteen”, we say it more like they’re separate numbers so it’s like there’s a silent “and” in there. Sometimes its not silent and it sounds like “six hundred ‘n fifteen” with a very subtle N in there.

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misophist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
It may be a regional thing. I learned English while I was in the states and we learnt “six hundred and fifteen” if you’re saying the digit-place words (hundred, thousand, etc), but “six fifteen” would also be correct. “Six hundred fifteen” was acceptable, but not preferred, and “six and fifteen” is not used.

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