RE: spelling and grammer, grammar, gramming, graham crackers :)

In journalism classes, we were taught to spell out numbers one through ten,
but use numerals for all above that (don't know quite where that leaves
zero; I spell it out...;-)

In "The Elements of Grammar," which I use constantly, it says the same
thing.

Deb

P.S. "Gramming"????? ;-)

(Another rule, which I just broke, was repeating the question marks above,
but it does add "flavor." ;-)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-hwg-basics(at)hwg.org [mailto:owner-hwg-basics(at)hwg.org]On
> Behalf Of Dennis Lapcewich
> Sent: Friday, June 23, 2000 11:31 PM
> To: 'Patty Frazer '; 'hwg-basics(at)mail.hwg.org '
> Subject: RE: spelling and grammer, grammar, gramming, graham crackers :)
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patty Frazer
> To: hwg-basics(at)mail.hwg.org
> Sent: 6/24/00 11:36 AM
> Subject: RE: spelling and grammer, grammar, gramming :)
>
> I also remember being taught that the numbers twenty, thirty,
> forty, etc. (up through ninety) were also written out.  I also
> remember them teaching us that you never begin a sentence with a
> number; that is always spelled out.  Anybody else remember that
> or am I remembering the old days again before they changed some
> of these rules?
>
> Patty
>
>
> Patty,
>
> The rules didn't change.  People are just more apathetic, and thus more
> accepting of poor grammar, poor design, poor browsers, my poor
> aching back,
> yadda, yadda ... :)
>
>
> Dennis
>

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