How Not to Write Written-out Numbers
rogersgeorge on December 18th, 2023
This comic is completely wrong. Nice pun at the end, though.
Generally we write out the single-digit numbers, and we write the digits of longer numbers. But sometimes we want to spell out a longer number. The correct way to spell out a two-digit number is to put a hyphen between the spelled-out digits (and use “and” for decimals). So 27 is twenty–seven when you write it out.
Even longer numbers are written out as separate words, so 275 is two hundred seventy-five. (Not two hundred and seventy-five, because “and” means decimal point.)
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