Kenneth
Thursday 7th May 2009 5:47am [Edited]
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Quote: Dolly Dagger @ May 6 2009, 7:30 PM BST
Spelt up to ten and in digits after (well at least that's the case in journalism).
In print journalism, yes, although only spelt up to nine for single digit numbers (one, two, three, four, five, six, seven eight, nine, 10, 11, etc). In radio and TV journalism, news writers use software that calculates the length of each story according to the size and number of the words in the script (so the duration of video footage can be matched, in the case of TV), thus it is necessary to spell out all numbers. For example:
Prime Minister Kenneth Yeung was born on March twenty-six / nineteen-seventy-nine. This year / he has been involved in a string of embarrassing sex scandals. He was most recently caught in a threesome with two lesbian supermodels / on April twenty-six. More than two-hundred-thousand lesbian supermodels today rallied in support of Kenneth / who is suspected of embezzling two-point-five-billion pounds from the treasury / to fund his collection of Are-You-Being-Served action figures. //