"Sally Swindells" wrote in message
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I've just been listening to hurricane news on Fox, and noticed that
one one item of other news they spoke of 'thirty hundred people' when
here we would have said 'three thousand' (3,000).

Is this a general thing - or regional - or is it just that particular
news reader?


It sounds to me like the newscaster just flubbed reading the teleprompter.
Its not unusual to hear 28 hundred people (2,000) so he/she just misspoke
most likely.