The only numbers I will ever spell are one and zero, and only when using them as a pronoun, or for emphasis, respectively.

Is there ever a reason to not to use symbols when dealing with numbers? Why would “fourteen whatevers” ever be preferable to “14 whatevers”. It’s just so much easier to read numbers as symbols, not spelled out.

(Caveat, not including multipliers, like “273 billion”).

  • @MisterFrogOPMEnglish
    2•1 month ago

    Even better haha, this is also my preference, but I think most audiences wouldn’t like that, I assume.

    Edit: 239,000,000,000 is obviously an option. But I rarely see that in a newspaper.