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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

Vun-Hugh Vaw
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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).

Peter Jennings
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    The BBC publishes a [lesson plan on large numbers](https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/course/intermediate/unit-25/session-1) 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
  • @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