Timeline for How to write out 28,358,292,110 in english
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| Jul 21 at 21:51 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jul 21 at 21:33 | comment | added | Greybeard | I’m voting to close this question because It should have been transferred to English Learners. | |
| Jun 7, 2017 at 20:54 | comment | added | Robbie Goodwin | Yes it is, Edwin; so long as you give it a comma…1,000 million in 'British English' please. Are you as old as me, and able to remember when people minded? I think it took roughly from about 1960 to about 1970 for we Brits to drop the distinction and accept the US billion. | |
| Jun 7, 2017 at 7:26 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | @eyeballfrog No. The 'billion' is nowadays defined as 1000 million in 'British English' also. – | |
| Jun 6, 2017 at 23:19 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jun 6, 2017 at 23:06 | comment | added | eyeballfrog | Doesn't this also depend on BrE vs AmE in that billion means different things in the two languages? | |
| Jun 6, 2017 at 23:01 | comment | added | Roger Sinasohn | Possible duplicate of Placement of commas and 'and' in English numerals | |
| Jun 6, 2017 at 22:59 | comment | added | Mazura | American vs. British English: meaning of “One hundred and fifty” You'd never say one hundred and fifty TENS would you? Then why is there an and in there? "When saying or writing out numbers, the British insert an and before the tens and units, as in one hundred and sixty-two or two thousand and three. In the United States it is considered correct to drop the and, as in one hundred sixty-two or two thousand three." | |
| Jun 6, 2017 at 22:32 | comment | added | Yosef Baskin | I would move the 'and' out unless I had cents: one hundred ten dollars, or one hundred ten dollars and nine cents. | |
| Jun 6, 2017 at 22:14 | comment | added | Lawrence | Some would also add a sprinkling of ands (e.g. ... three hundred and fifty-eight million ...). | |
| Jun 6, 2017 at 21:56 | comment | added | RaceYouAnytime | Some people would put hyphens between words like "twenty-eight" and "fifty-eight," etc. Just as @HotLicks did. For instance, take a look at this check. | |
| Jun 6, 2017 at 21:51 | comment | added | Hot Licks | Yes, barring a dyslexic episode, that's how you'd write it. But note that very few publications would use that form for such a large number, preferring to either use decimal digits or approximate it using something like "a little over twenty-eight billion dollars". | |
| Jun 6, 2017 at 21:48 | comment | added | Sven Yargs | A reader wouldn't know that you meant dollars unless you included a dollar sign ($) before the number or the word dollars after it. | |
| Jun 6, 2017 at 21:45 | review | First posts | |||
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| Jun 6, 2017 at 21:44 | history | asked | Kathy Thompson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
