Re: Ok Girls! I have an annoying questions~~
Posted by dianadrw
Whenever I have questions like this, I always refer to the Crane's website. This is taken directly from their site:
'In mathematics 'and' denotes a decimal point, and since there’s no decimal point in the year '2001,' it may seem incorrect to use 'and.' Wedding invitations, however, are not mathematical equations, so the use of 'and' as a decimal point is irrelevant. On wedding invitations, 'and' is used simply as a connective word.'
So it looks like Crane's advice is to include the 'and'.
Even though I still can't think of one reason why you'd put a conjunction in the middle of a number, I actually had to look it up so it wouldn't bother me. The Elements of Style is silent about it, but according to Wikipedia (not the most authoritative source but it has everything), keeping the 'and' is optional.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_differences
In the case of years, however, 'twelve thirty-four' would be the norm on both sides of the Atlantic for the year 1234. The year 2000 and beyond are read as 'two thousand', 'two thousand (and) one' and the like by both British and American speakers, although the BBC has recently taken the step of reading dates as 'twenty-oh-six' for 2006.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_numbers_in_English#Dates
