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This may be a regionalism, but in vast parts of the US, most people actually use the extra "ands" in spoken English. That's why teachers have to work so hard to pound it out of them in written American English.

How far were the Blues Brothers from Chicago? I'm pretty sure it was "a hundred and six miles". Does US English put the "and" back in if there's no tens digit? What if you write a cheque for $106? (British English puts the "and" back after thousands if there's no hundreds digit: two thousand and six, four thousand and ninety-six.)

Peter