Thread:Blue Luna/@comment-29401477-20170601092915/@comment-29401477-20170601131014

I've been researching it, and here is what the Internet says:

Wikipedia: 'For other numbers, the elements of the cardinal number are used, with the last word replaced by the ordinal: 23 → "twenty-third"; 523 → "five hundred twenty-third" ( British English: "five hundred and twenty-third")'

But Wikipedia's not always reliable, so I tried to find other examples.

Howtospell.co.uk (so British): ' In long numbers, 'th' is added to the last number:

106th = one hundred and sixth

242nd = two hundred and forty-secondth

2018th = two thousand and eighteenth'

There was a 'One Hundred and Twenty-Sixth Regiment' in the 'Ohio Volunteer Infantry' in 1883, so I guess we can assume that using the 'and' is the more traditional and formal form.

Also, there was 'The One Hundreth and Twentry-Sixth Commencement 1989' from the La Salle University in Philidelphia, so it seems the 'and form' is used in formal American English, or at least was until fairly recently.

But it is used currently (in Britain at least) as there was: =Minutes of the one hundred and twenty sixth meeting= from The British Association of Social Workers.

They used the 'and form' in the Nuremburg Trials, but that's old again...

Oh! They used 'one hundred second' in the 'One Hundred Second' field artillery in Boston in 1927...

Got it! There was the 'One Hundred Fourteenth Congress of the United States of America' in 2016, (from a website managed by the American government) - so it seems that both forms are used formally in America, but that the form without the 'and' is now favoured as it appears in American government documents. But, all the British documents have included the 'and', so it seems we haven't dropped it.

So, I guess we can leave it as it is, since the form with no and is an acceptable variant!

And, now I should really get back to doing something productive :D