whl626 said:Are you free the weekend of November 4 ?
How about ' 4th ' ?
whl626 said:Then I would put it that people just want to make it short for convenience sake.
whl626 said:No, I mean leave out the ' th '.
whl626 said:What I've seen is the first" Are you free the weekend of November 4 ?
That's why I wonder if 4 is short for 4th ? because of laziness![]()
The advice proffered here is meant primarily for standard academic prose. Business and technical writing sometimes goes by a different set of standards, and writers of those kinds of text should consult a manual dedicated to those standards. (The APA Publication Manual has an extensive section devoted to the use of numbers in technical papers. The Chicago Manual of Style [chapter 13] addresses just about every issue that might come up in a technical or mathematical text.)
Dates and years: December 18, 1997. Avoid using ordinals when writing dates: Her birthday is on April 4.
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Casiopea said:whl626 said:What I've seen is the first" Are you free the weekend of November 4 ?
That's why I wonder if 4 is short for 4th ? because of laziness![]()
Using Numbers, Writing Lists
The advice proffered here is meant primarily for standard academic prose. Business and technical writing sometimes goes by a different set of standards, and writers of those kinds of text should consult a manual dedicated to those standards. (The APA Publication Manual has an extensive section devoted to the use of numbers in technical papers. The Chicago Manual of Style [chapter 13] addresses just about every issue that might come up in a technical or mathematical text.)
Dates and years: December 18, 1997. Avoid using ordinals when writing dates: Her birthday is on April 4.
http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/numbers.htm
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whl626 said:Ron, I believe that ' her birthday is on April 4. ' is actually pronounced as ' 4th ' verbally. Am I right ?