Writing out large numbers in words: http://www.grammarbook.com/numbers/numbers.asp See examples in Rule 7, and note that the comma is used in words whenever it is used in digits (but not in 4-digit numbers). But in any case there is no "and", and the comma when present replaces the missing "and". Numbers written digitally have a comma "27,101", so the use of the comma in words is closer to the way it is written in digits. "One thousand and one nights" is a contraction of the original title (in English) "The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night" which implies that the 1000 nights are to be considered separate from the one night. In the story, 1000 nights are spend telling tales with cliffhanger endings and Scheherazade anticipating her execution, and then the final night, in which she has been pardoned (and will become the queen). It is as if "1000 vases and one jug" were poorly translated into "1000 and one bottles" which was then interpreted by the reader as "1001". - Robert On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 08:40, David Wilson <davidwwilson@comcast.net>wrote:
I have seen "one thousand one" and "one thousand and one", but all due respect to Dr. Noll, I am not sure if I have ever seen "one thousand, one" or any other number spelled out with a comma in modern times, although I can brook correction on that count. In other words, I wouldn't take this web page as the final word on number naming.
English naming conventions for numbers is an interesting subject. There is a definite split along British/American lines. I believe that in Britain (correct me), the use of "and" is more or less universal in both spoken and written numbers (two thousand three hundred and seventeen), whereas in America, there is a formalism introduced some time in the last century in which the "and" was dropped (two thousand three hundred seventeen). The latter predominates in written material and in formal speech. In casual speech, the "and" form is more common, or else a shortened form (twenty-three seventeen). I believe the "andless" formalism was introduced in America circa 1900 (don't quite me).
As I have heard it spoken, "and" is used as follows: (1) Within a block of three digits, to separate positive hundreds from a positive remainder, as in "three hundred and forty-seven" or "five hundred and one thousand six hundred and thirty-eight"; and (2) in a number of two or more blocks, before the last block if its value is between 1and 99, as in "one thousand and one" or "seventy-five million and thirty-eight".
There is also the British use of the word "naught" (nought) for zero. In a numerical context, I understand this to be more of a name for the digit itself (similar to "cipher"), than for the number it represents, I am not sure if it is ever used to name a number. In America, the digit and the number are "zero." The meaning "nothing" for "naught" survives in America, but is obsolescent. The Americans corrupted "naught" to "aught" (ought) in times past: the year 1906 would have been abbreviated to '06 and spoken "aught eight". The .30-06 Springfield rifle, invented in 1906, is still called a "thirty aught six". In modern speech, "oh" is commonly used for the digit zero. [...]
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[Landon Curt Noll] spells "1001" as "one thousand, one" and similarly for everything up to 999999. For example 27101 is "twenty seven thousand, one hundred one" which has 11+8+13=32 letters and one comma. You can try more examples on the website.
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