Pet Peeve
Stupid pet peeve of the day . . .
When people write out word count. In other words, 50,000 words is correct.
These are not correct:
- Fifty-thousand words
- 50 thousand words
- Fifty 1000 words
Jessica
Friday, June 11, 2010
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