Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Criminal Sentence 128: Dollars dollars and cents cents

From the CNN crawl:

"$25 million dollars"

This reads twenty-five million dollars dollars. Now if someone is giving me that amount, I won't complain, but otherwise, I must protest. The dollar sign ($) and the word "dollars" are the same, so you need only one, usually the dollar sign.
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4 comments:

  1. KristaNovember 18, 2008 at 7:49 AM

    This drives me crazy, too. It's similar to .25 cents (the symbol for cents).

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  2. Laura JayneNovember 23, 2008 at 8:40 AM

    One that makes me laugh is...

    ATM Machine

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  3. bits and piecesNovember 25, 2008 at 10:18 PM

    Also PIN Number as well as TIN Number :)

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  4. Westley TurnerJune 25, 2009 at 12:24 PM

    My kids cringe when we go into Wal-Mart. There is almost always a cart right by the door that has a few left-over items that they are pushing. When the tag says ".25¢" I either rip off the '.' or the '¢' whichever is easier. My kids run for the dark corners. :-)

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