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Thanks, hadn't thought about that scenario. I have a feeling it's going to start bugging me as well now...

• JoeAltmaier 14y ago
  Sorry! Just to make it worse for you: why don't people also pronounce 1492 as "one thousand and four hundred and ninety and two"?
  • talkingquickly 14y ago
    Surely that comes from the same language structure which means you wouldn't say beans and eggs and tomatoes and potatoes, you'd say beans, eggs, tomatoes and potatoes e.g. in a list of "and" items you only say and between the penultimate and final items?
• anonymous 14y ago
  For what it's worth, the "and" is mandatory in my language and we manage to disambiguate 100 2/3 from 102/3 by putting a pause between either "hundred" and "and" or "two" and "thirds". 100 2/3 - one hundred ... and two thirds 102/3 - one hundred and two ... thirds Alternatively, use "plus" instead of "and" in the first case.