- Correct usage of USD - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
100 clams 50 quid a stack of euros thick enough to choke a cow Share Improve this answer Follow
- a 100 vs 100 - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
She walked past the farm 100 times or She walked past the farm a 100 times The second seems wrong to me since separately "100" is pronounced "one hundred" but I have frequently seen this usage Edit I changed the example to avoid some confusion surrounding my question
- meaning - How to use tens of and hundreds of? - English Language . . .
In English, one would normally say "dozens of" rather than "tens of", so there is some overlap I might use "dozens of" for an amount between 36 (a dozen, two dozen, dozens ) and 132 (a dozen less than a gross), "scores of" for a number between 40 and 199, and "hundreds of" for values greater than that
- Difference between hundred, a hundred, and one hundred?
In the UK 'a hundred, a hundred and one, a hundred and two' etc is a common style when speaking about 100, 101, 102 etc This form is also used when writing what has been spoken 'One hundred' is also used Either form is also used for 1,000, i e 'a thousand', or 'one thousand' etc
- Is it proper to state percentages greater than 100%? [closed]
This looks like a real question to me Unfortunately, because a moderator has closed it, I can't cite style guide discussions that distinguish between asserting that something has increased by more than 100% (valid) and asserting that something has decreased by more than 100% (invalid, unless negative numbers make sense in the context of the topic under discussion)
- writing style - How to write numbers and percentage? - English Language . . .
[Relevant examples;] 1%[;] 45%[;] 100% In discussions involving infrequent use of numbers you may spell out a percentage or an amount of money if you can do so in three words or fewer (five dollars, forty-five percent, two thousand dollars, sixty-eight cents) Do no combine spelled forms of numbers with symbols
- 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 '"
- Is It Ok To Write 100% In A Formal Text?
The type of writing you are doing also plays into your decision For example, in legally binding documents, like contracts or exhibits to contracts, the spelled out number is the legally binding number So if a text said that, "you are 99% (one-hundred percent) responsible", the 100% number would be legally binding, not 99%
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