Bad example! Saying “gas” for “petrol” is ambiguous, it’s a US habit that I just don’t get. Petrol is NOT gaseous! Does nobody ever get confused by calling a liquid “gas”? (Yes, I know it’s short for “gasoline”, but that’s three syllables.)
How do you say it?
Up here in Canada the ‘and’ is alive and well. ‘Two thousand one’ makes me want to ask ‘What’s a thou?’ ‘and one what?’
No matter how emphatic someone else’s teacher was, mine were equally emphatic - the ‘and’ is mandatory.
This USian does. ETA: except for “One Hundred and One Dalmations”.
I speak in numbers, just before deuteronomy. 
Interesting. When you write checks (or cheques), do you include “and” when you write out the amount?
I don’t write cheques but I expect Canada is the same as Britain - The ‘And’ is mandatory and if I did write cheques it would be there.
Just as ‘to’ is mandatory between ‘write’ and ‘me’.
Person 1 “Write me”
Person 2 gets pen. Writes ‘me’.
Depends - $2,009.49 would be ‘Two Thousand and Nine Dollars and forty-nine/100’, but $2,982.49 would be ‘Two Thousand, Nine Hundred and Eighty-Two Dollars and forty-nine/100’.
And both of those cheques (or checks; either one is acceptable but the latter seems more ‘Americanized’.) would be best abbreviated as NSF.
Wow you write out the cents? I just put “Two thousand nine hundred eighty-two and 49/100” (dollars is already written on the check) and I barely have room even to put all that.
Yeah, I reckon the point of writing it out long hand after you’ve written out the numbers is to clarify in case your 4s and 9s are indistinguishable, so even though the worst case scenario is that I’ll pay fifty-five cents more than I needed to, I write that part out longhand as well. Sometimes I’ll put a line to the left of the longhand amount, and for even amounts, like say, two thousand, I’ll put the word ‘only’ after it in case some bugger gets any ideas about adding an extra nine hundred and ninety-nine after it…
Can you tell I grew up in the days when bank tellers actually looked at that piece of paper?