Sally:
That sounds so odd to me too. I wonder if you misunderstood;
perhaps it was thirteen hundred, not thirty hundred.
Over here it is acceptable to say hundreds up to around nineteen
hundred. One thousand, nine hundred is acceptable too.

Example, I cleaned out my quilting room and found seventeen
hundred UFO, give or take a couple hundred. (ROFLOL!!)

PAT in VA/USA

Sally Swindells wrote:
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? Here its unusual to go much above fifteen hundred before
the number turns into thousands, and to turn into thousands at the
1,000 mark is probably more usual, e.g. one thousand two hundred).

Just intrigued by language usage, thats all!
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