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

Hi Ellisa, I'm not sure I agree with your use of the word "fluent" here, which seems to imply only the accent/pronuciation. There are native speakers who don't speak fluently, even though their pronunication is fine,

"You all" has the same semantics as "yous", right? I understand that the pronunciation is usually "yall". It probably depends upon how fast it is said. If I were speaking carefully and slowly, I would say "you

One should not insist that the etymology of an idiom be proven more precisely or accurately than the etymology of words and phrases that are not idioms. For most of the lexicon, the when and how cannot be precisely known. Dictionary etymologies,

BTW, is the usage of American constructions/pronunciation in British English acceptable or is it treated as a mistake? American constructions and pronunciation are no problem in Britain. And if foreigners use these nobody will really notice,