On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 03:05:03PM +1000, Tim Connors wrote: > As you found out, the way Americans say it was only changed half way > back to when your "fathers" set up the country, ie., it was you that > changed the language - everyone else uses the "and" in numbers. *I* > put it down to Americans being lazy, not us being lazy for pausing a > sentence - it is simply how we and everyone else who speaks non- > Americanized language, have always spoken. Along the same lines as why
Eh, sorry, too late for me. I got it burned into my head in 3rd grade that "two hundred and thirty-seven" is like "two hundred, um, and thirty-seven." But while I expect not everyone had the same teacher as me and thus didn't get it drilled so hard, Lincoln's poetical usage isn't proof. What's curious to me is *why* my teacher would have told me that. You'd have thought he'd have been an Anglophile. Prolly something to do with the commies :-) I didn't even know "In God We Trust" was added to the money in the 50s, just thought it was always like that. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
