Every now and then, I get one of those – ahem – marketing emails offering me a place in some seminar that promises to teach me good business writing. I love reading them to try and find not so obvious grammar errors (Grammar Nazi, moi?) and thereby vindicate my belief that such workshops are pretty worthless. Invariably, one of the bullet points of things you’d learn by attending the session is how to write numbers in text. “Learn one simple rule,” the email goes, “and never get it wrong again.” Or something along those lines. […]
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