Yeah, as far as I can tell it’s normal in America to say 615 as “six hundred fifteen”, whereas the rest of the anglosphere would say “six hundred and fifteen”.
The fact that the line break happened to be right where the word “and” was missing probably made it even harder to parse correctly.
Thanks for spelling out why this felt wrong to me
Yeah, as far as I can tell it’s normal in America to say 615 as “six hundred fifteen”, whereas the rest of the anglosphere would say “six hundred and fifteen”.
The fact that the line break happened to be right where the word “and” was missing probably made it even harder to parse correctly.
Funny enough, I was taught that including the “and” was explicitly wrong in first grade! (American here)
Im American. I might read the number 615 as “six hundred fifteen” in some cases. Like if I was counting.
But I would not say “six hundred fifteen giraffes”, I would say “six hundred and fifteen giraffes”