From: clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP

On 2025-08-12, Arne Vajhøj  wrote:
>
> There are other possible examples:
>
> "The lot is twelve hundred square meters"
>
> "The rent is fourteen hundred X per month"
>
> Point is that using "hundreds" when there is more than 1000
> does happen quite frequently.
>

The difference is that those are explicit multiples of a value (ie: 100).
The standalone plural "hundreds" means something different.

Simon.

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