- Thousand thousands? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
You don't use the 's' on numbers in phrases such as 'thirty thousand dollars' because the number here is acting as an adjective Adjectives in English don't take plurals Even if you omit the 'dollars' it is understood that 'dollars' whether it is spoken or inferred is the noun When you say thousands of dollars you are no longer using 'thousands' as an adjective It is now a noun Think of it
- abbreviations - Usage of p. versus pp. versus pg. to denote page . . .
As far as I know, pg is not an acceptable form, at least in formal writing The correct forms are p for a single page, and pp for a range In many cases, actually, you don't need any of them Quite commonly you'll find references in the form volume:page (s), like 5:204 or 8:99–108 (or, for works of a single volume, something like Blah Blah Blah 108)
- American vs. British English: meaning of One hundred and fifty
An American typically reads a dollar amount, like "$100 50", as "one hundred dollars and fifty cents" For a non-monetary amount, like "100 50", Americans read that as "one hundred point five zero" or "one hundred point fifty"
- Origin of the phrase, Theres more than one way to skin a cat.
There are many versions of this proverb, which suggests there are always several ways to do something The earliest printed citation of this proverbial saying that I can find is in a short story by the American humorist Seba Smith - The Money Diggers, 1840: "There are more ways than one to skin a cat," so are there more ways than one of digging for money Charles Kingsley used one old British
- phrase requests - Is there a proverb idiom for To be a lion among . . .
My friend said the other day: It makes perfect sense to use the strategy of being a lion among sheep rather than a sheep among lions I have researched this phrase and have found nothing, so I sus
- Should there be a space before a percent sign?
I will add that German standards, too, use a space (see DIN 5008, Duden, etc ), but it appears that barely any German is aware of that The style guidelines of the German Wikipedia agree that there should be a space, but even in their article on the percent sign itself that rule is occasionally ignored: for every instance with a space, there's another one without So much for standards
- What was the first use of the saying, You miss 100% of the shots you . . .
You miss 100 percent of the shots you don't take 1991 Burton W Kanter, "AARP—Asset Accumulation, Retention and Protection," Taxes 69: 717: "Wayne Gretzky, relating the comment of one of his early coaches who, frustrated by his lack of scoring in an important game told him, 'You miss 100% of the shots you never take '"
- Should it be 10 US$ or US$ 10? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Which is correct to use in a sentence, 10 US$ or US$ 10 Perhaps USD should be used instead or even something else?
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