deka <rocha.deka / gmail.com> writes:

> Hi, I am a Brazilian girl and I have a doubt abour numbers in English.
> I have a book in English where there is a table on cumulative civilian
> death toll in wars. They put "100s africans, 1000s civil war..." and I
> would like to know the meaning of the little "s" after the numbers.

Notice that this is very bad typological style to print digits in
these cases.  They should have spelled them out: "hundreds of
africans, thousands of civil wars".



(It could be tolerated for decades, like the 60s or the 70s (the
sixties, the seventies), but this is not "Y2K-compliant", and writting
1960s is not good style either, so even in this case it's better to
spell the numbers out).


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__Pascal Bourguignon__