is. "was" doesn't sound very good to me.

>> A lot of inconsistency for either. More often, I say it with the I sound, but even so, I'll sometimes say ee. I think it's regional varation on this one. << I think that it's not so much region (in NAE), but rather idiolect that

Actually although to speakers of other varieties of English, they seem to use a sound that sounds very much like the "i" in "kite", for the "ay" sound in "Kate", but that is not the case. In NAE and BrE, "kite" is /kaIt/. In Australian English,

North or South Carolina

I would probably pronounce it /bEnEditSitE/

>> but I think everyone nowadays just say "three point five" and "two point two four" in both AmE and BrE... everywhere, I guess. For example, 3.14 is "three point one four", not "three and fourteen tenths". Isn't it so? << You can do

It's fairly arbitrary how you divide them up. It depends more on which of those varieties have a navy.

The reason that the "and" is technically incorrect (in NAE at least), is that "and" is used in mathematics to represent a decimal point.

Probably the former 70% of the time and the latter 30% of the time. The second sounds "quainter".