[ih] Erratum in IEN 37

[Tony Finch]

Joseph Touch via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
>
> Almost. Like German, the ones and tens are inverted, as in:
>
> 	one thousand eight hundred three and seventy.
>
> So neither Arabic nor German speak numbers in either big-endian or
> little-endian order.

This order was used in English in the past too - have a look at the King
James bible for lots of examples. So I guess it's likely that we say
numbers the way we do because of how they are written.

> In English, “and” is inserted only for numbers with at least three
> digits when the tens are zero and the ones are not.

British English always includes an "and" before the tens and units, e.g.
"one hundred and thirty-seven" or "two thousand and one".

Tony.
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