the no of daily deaths i

[GoodTaste]

Does "the no of daily deaths" here mean "the number of daily deaths"?

If so, should "no" be "no."?

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richard horton
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Daily UK deaths this wk: 813, 413, 360, 586, 765, 674, 739. We may be “past the peak”, but the no of daily deaths is a human catastrophe. Many of these deaths were preventable. News headlines should not be about meeting the 100K testing target. They should be about these deaths.

 

[Tarheel]

It's missing a period (full stop). It should be:

the no. of daily deaths ....

 

[Rover_KE]

Again, don't expect to find perfect English from Twitterers.

 

[emsr2d2]

I would say don't even expect to find that full stop in a lot of English writing.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

Yuk! There's no good reason to abbreviate it. It's lazy and makes the sentence harder to read.

Spell it out: number.

 

[GoesStation]

There's a very good reason to abbreviate words in tweets. They're limited to 280 characters.

 

[GoodTaste]

In the context of the OP, does "News headlines should not be about meeting the 100K testing target" unambiguously refer to "News headlines should not be about meeting the 100K testing daily target"? Logically it is clear that it should be 100K testing every day, because the confirmed cases in the UK had passed 170K by the time the author twteeted. But grammatically it is not very clear to me.

 

[Tarheel]

The UK has a population of 67 million, so testing 100,000 a day seems a reasonable goal.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

There's a very good reason to abbreviate words in tweets. They're limited to 280 characters.

That's just a very good reason not to tweet!