#2. All you need to be a writer is talent. [The Awl]

  • Paul Renault

    22. People enjoy titles which start with numbers written using digits rather than letters.

    /one of my pet peeves.
    //Shrunk and White doesn’t discuss this…and I can’t find my ‘Elements of Canadian Style’.

    • princessalex

      As far as I remember, you write number above nineteen as digits, while all those less than 20 with letters.  Unless, of course, you’re beginning a sentence.  In which case, you ALWAYS use letters.  Unless you’re a newspaper.  ;-)

      • http://twitter.com/shay_guy Shay Guy

        If I remember the AP Stylebook, its dividing point was nine/10.

  • http://twitter.com/thewordofward Jason Ward

    I’m a journalist and the rules I’ve always been been told to follow are 10 and above use digits, nine and below it’s  letters. I think the conventions are different depending on what you are doing. Plus this is the internet, which is a pretty lawless land.

    • Antinous / Moderator

      That’s what my sixth grade grammar teacher taught us.

  • miasm

    New Rule! I love ‘em.