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Pet Peeve #46 - Numbers in Place of Words

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This pet peeve is something a little different to my usual pet peeves in that it could be a cultural thing instead of something that’s simply done wrong. It’s not necessarily wrong, but you won’t get away with it if you want to get what you’re writing published.

Numbers instead of words.

“His mother stacked 3 pancakes on his plate. She looked at it a moment longer before putting 2 more pancakes on the stack. He wasn’t sure he could eat all five, but he was certainly going to give it a good hard try!

This is a pet peeve of mine because if I see numbers in what I’m reading, they had better be some sort of statistics. Numbers thrown in when it’s not necessary to have numbers is distracting.


Posted in Pet Peeves on November 20th, 2007

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3 Responses to “Pet Peeve #46 - Numbers in Place of Words”

  1. Writers Unbound » Blog Archive » A Tool I Can DEFINITELY Get Behind! Says:
    November 20th, 2007 at 2:21 pm

    [...] Reads numerals out loud [...]

  2. Bernita Says:
    November 22nd, 2007 at 10:26 am

    Dates and times too?

  3. JM Says:
    November 22nd, 2007 at 4:59 pm

    Not always, and I suppose I’m drawing a bit of a fine line there. It can really depend on what you’re writing - novel vs blog post, etc. Though it is just as easy to type three in the afternoon as it is to type 3pm.

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