Here’s a quick guide:
Write one to ten in words and then use numerals, except if in the same sentence: ❌ My LI post was liked by nine but viewed by 56 ✔️ My LI post was liked by nine but viewed by fifty-six (don't forget the hyphen between tens and units) If writing about ages, always write in numerals but don’t forget to hyphenate: ❌ The oldest person in the world is 117 years old ✔️ The 117-year-old man is the oldest person in the world Temperatures should be written as an abbreviation with the degree symbol and no space: ❌ 46 degrees C ✔️ 46˚C Years should be elided using the en (long) dash: ❌ 1921-1922 ✔️ 1921–1922 Page numbers should be elided using the en dash: ❌ pp. 345-6 ✔️ pp. 345–6 It’s always better to write decades in full unless the century is very clear: ❌ The ‘40s and ‘50s ✔️ The 1940s and ‘50s And no apostrophe before or after the s! ❌ Life in the 40’s … ❌ Life in the 40s’ … ✔️ Life in the 1940s … When writing about ‘centuries’, remember when to hyphenate. Compounds used as adjectives should be written with a hyphen: ❌ The eighteenth-century was a time of revolution ✔️ The eighteenth-century revolutions ...
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