I think you may be asking for explicit, black and white answers, to questions which don't lend themselves to such answers. There seem to be two problems in that there are: *Differences between British and American usages. *Differences in

In British English one would say all the "ands" which you have asked about. Thus: two thousand six hundred and eighty four. I believe that American (and it seems Canadian) English is different. Americans may well make an exception for

Hi, To the last poster, all I can say is that I'm a Canadian too, and there are so many statements I disagree with in your post that I don't even know where to start commenting. So, I won't. Instead, I'll focus on the

Hi, let me help you, I am Canadian. First of all, there is the correct way to say numbers, and the everyday/slang way. The proper way is " and" means a decimal. You NEVER use "and" unless denoting a decimal. How about

How would you read out the following numbers? 2,684 ft? Would you say 26 hundred and 84 or two thousand six hundred and eighty four feet? How about any other four digit number? I believe the four digit numbers with only the two first digits

(1)A brown-colored rat can change its shape as easily as a piece of rubber. (2) Planning to visit Sweden, Shanna decided to study the native language. (3) Like a good drawing that has a minimal number of lines, a good paragraph should have

My college had Constitution Day on Sep 16th, and I've assigned to write a synopsis for the day. I wrote and correct the numeric usage in the synopsis, but I still do not have a confidence with what I wrote. For example, I usually make SV

Resident: Scottish Highlands Ah, well! You can't expect me to answer from the viewpoint of this man! I thought your interests lay mostly with American English anyway. how do they know if something sounds odd? Sounds odd to who? Kooyeen! The

TinyPixie, you are absolutely correct about the use of these prepositions, but there exists one nuance that you should take into consideration. Thus, on is used for giving phone numbers in British English, eg : Call us on 0800 0900017 , while at

English Usage: Whilst Or While? By: whichenglish Let me begin by saying that there are a number of people who will always insist on using whilst over while. Now, while (whilst) they are perfectly free to choose their own words because there