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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.)


On US checks, the "and" is only supposed to be used for the decimal point. Period. (er, uh, "full stop." Whatever.)

In spoken American English, in my experience, the "and" is frequently used, whether or not it is "a hundred" or "one hundred" or "four hundred."
But then, I'm from a region which frequently refers to someone being "six foot" tall, rather than "six feet" tall. And I know that the dropping of the plural for some units of length and measure is more common in the southern US and less common in the northern US. I have no idea if this correlates with other numeric speaking anomalies.