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Well, I sure can't say, "I can't take it anymore", but I don't like when I hear people saying things such as:
Two thousand and one, or, ten dollars and fifty cents.
There's no and!
Equally annoying is when I see a check that is written and that "and" is in there.
I don't have the proper writing knowledge that some of you do but it's still one that I do notice.
Partially correct (there is a pun in there). It is the more accepted convention not to have the "and" in the whole dollar amount. However, the "and," when writing a check, serves to separate the fraction or remainder from the whole dollar amount, similarly as it is when spoken. You would write it Two Thousand ten, and 50/100ths------------dollars. It would be like when you verbalize 5 1/2, you would write it or say five and a (or one) half, you would not write five one half.
Partially correct (there is a pun in there). It is the more accepted convention not to have the "and" in the whole dollar amount. However, the "and," when writing a check, serves to separate the fraction or remainder from the whole dollar amount, similarly as it is when spoken. You would write it Two Thousand ten,
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Originally Posted by PanTerra
and 50/100ths------------dollars. It would be like when you verbalize 5 1/2, you would write it or say five and a (or one) half, you would not write five one half.
Agreed! I just failed to remember that when I typed my post.
Of course you can take it; all of us can. And that's because there's plenty worse to come! Every day brings a robust new crop of outrageous misuses. It's an epidemic!
This was spoken, not written, but a woman that I work with--in Finance, working on her Master's and otherwise very intelligent, kept referring to "exerts" in a conversation yesterday when she meant "excerpts".
This was spoken, not written, but a woman that I work with--in Finance, working on her Master's and otherwise very intelligent, kept referring to "exerts" in a conversation yesterday when she meant "excerpts".
There is a man in my office who says "ax". It is jarring to hear. He wears a suit, nice-looking, well-groomed man, well-educated (I know he has his Master's) and speaks properly other than that "ax". And no, he is not African-American, among whom the ax-for-ask is pretty common.
There is a man in my office who says "ax". It is jarring to hear. He wears a suit, nice-looking, well-groomed man, well-educated (I know he has his Master's) and speaks properly other than that "ax". And no, he is not African-American, among whom the ax-for-ask is pretty common.
Imagine if the company axed him! (Would he "ax" to be reinstated?)
Zimmerman already has experience laying low: For more than a month before his arrest, he eluded the media and his whereabouts were not known.
It should be 'lying low.' As a commenter points out, if you are 'laying low' you had better be a hen.
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