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I've just realised Americans don't say the "and" in numbers.
So instead of "a hundred and ninety six", they remove the "and", and they've just been walking around saying things like "a hundred ninety six" for years.
I mean, it's pretty commonly said, especially in a colloquial setting. More people than not probably use it.
But there is a convention that the "and" should be adhered to when a decimal is present; that said, – like many grammar rules – this isn't far from universally followed.
It's worse than that - I'd actually say "one ninety six".
But in my head I always read the comm name as "one nine six".
To be fair, I probably say things like "one ninety six" or "one nine six" when referring to measurements.
i.e. how far is it between those two? "2... fifty four... point... 3". I guess there's a sort of silent "metres" "centimetres" etc in there.
TIL
Chinese say 1 hundred 9 ten 6 as an added data point
That pretty much makes sense - and the American manner makes sense, it's just so similar to what I'm familiar with, but slightly different, so looks really wrong to my brain.
Germans say 1 hundred 6 and 9 ten... Because Germans like to be special. Learning German makes me appreciate Chinese and English counting. Although the -hundred delimitation confuses foreign speakers. Such as 15-hundred is actually 1,500
"Right, it should be a hundred ninety and six"
*my dumb brain after reading your first sentence quick translating from Spanish.