Which is correct: "one hundred and one apple" or "one hundred and one apples"?
The first version seems more likely, but there are "101 Dalmatians".
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The first example is incorrect. The second and third examples are both correct. Which one you use is mostly a matter of preference, although a hundred appears more frequently than one hundred. There is also another form, an hundred, which was common in the past, but has mostly fallen out of use.
See Google Ngram Viewer: a hundred, an hundred, one hundred:
Because in English "twelve thousand" is not interpreted as 12 occurrences of 1000, as in 12 cars, but rather as one occurrence of 12000. Why it's like this, is a matter of speculation.
Languages are different and I guess some languages view 200 as a plural, as two occurrences of 100. English and Dutch do not, and French, as 200_success points out, swings both ways: 200 being deux cents, but 201 being deux cent un.
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Consider a sentence where the apples are the subject.
One hundred and one apple rolls down the street. That sounds pretty strange. A disagreement with the verb would be even worse.
It's more than one apple, so it should be plural.