RE: What's 1 to do?

["Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com>]

And now AP's given up objective reporting --
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0708/11716.html.


Bonnie Granat
http://www.GranatEdit.com

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> Subject: What's 1 to do?
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> I've observed an alarming tendency for the numbers 0 through 
> 10 to be presented as digits, rather than as written-out 
> numbers. Stylebooks (AP is the one I remember best without 
> looking anything up) invariably recommended not using digits 
> for those small numbers except when appropriate, as in 
> scientific work. Now as I read articles on the web, 
> supposedly professionally written, I come across lonesome 
> digits in what feels like 2 out of every 5 cases. It looks 
> stupid to me. Have the rules changed while I wasn't looking?
> 
> When the hurlyburly's done,
> When the battle's lost and 1.
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