Can "and" be used for the thousands place in sounded-out numbers? Or is it only restricted to the tens and ones places? For example:
9,300,000 => nine million and(?) three hundred thousand
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I think most native english speakers (at least BrE) would just say
9,300,000 => nine million three hundred thousand
However 9,300,043 would be said as
nine million three hundred thousand and forty three
I don't think that it is an actual rule, but conventionally if the last two digits of each block of 3 digits are not both zero then we include "and" but omit it if they are. Hence 1,100 => "one thousand one hundred", but 1,101 => "one thousand one hundred and one" and 1,350,200 => "one million three hundred and fifty thousand two hundred. If all three digits of the group are zero then they are not pronounced at all 1,000,100 => "one million one hundred" (no mention of thousands).
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2The BBC publishes a lesson plan on large numbers that includes the rules, "Don’t use the word and to join millions and thousands or thousands and hundreds [...] But do use the word and to join hundreds and tens." So yes, there are actual written rules. – Canadian Yankee Feb 23 '23 at 14:30
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@CanadianYankee That's exactly what I'm looking for. A source that explicitly says the dos and the don'ts. – Vun-Hugh Vaw Feb 25 '23 at 14:40