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When the words are "a" hundred or "a" thousand, there is a problem for the person who wishes to keep it as close to verbatim as possible. Technically, "a hundred" and "a thousand" are not numbers a...

Numbers in the thousands are expressed in figures with a comma and can never be a combination of figures and words. ...sent 45,000... ...received 133,000 of them... ...offered 50,000 for it... Wh...

Formal English rules say that an incomplete number should be written out in words. ...I think you said you made four or five hundred dollars. Combined with the consistency rule, this presents som...

When a year is interrupted by a word or two, the English rule says to write out the number in words. That is always the fallback position. However, as always in reporting, numbers written in words ...

A sequential reference is a number that is part of a series of numbers, which usually follows the word that designates what the number is referring to. We consider a number to be "sequential" when ...

There is a recurring question about these kinds of numbers. What if it is "...sent a hundred dollars to him" or "...paid ten and a half" or "...a little over a million"? The answer is that these ar...

Great seeing so many "old" familiar faces at DRA. Wow. It has been a few years. Glad to see you thriving in this wonderful field. There was a recent discussion on numbers and their form within a s...

We have differing opinions about the word o'clock and the :00. Some of us were taught that o'clock should be transcribed as ":00" by those wonderful, hard-working teachers of our youth . Others of ...