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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This drives me crazy, too. It's similar to .25 cents (the symbol for cents).
One that makes me laugh is...
ATM Machine
Also PIN Number as well as TIN Number :)
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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