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is there a single word that means writing out a number, instead of using a numeral? like writing "three," instead of "3"?

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

"unnecessary"

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

trans-literating.

Why not.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

Spelled-out.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

unnacceptable

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, how about:

No.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

and that's not an abbreviation.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

Right, my guess was something to do with sign language.

Numbers

Guidelines for spelling out numbers:

Spell out one through one hundred.

Spell out numbers when used approximately: "About a hundred soldiers were killed."

Spell out a number used as the first word of a sentence (Chicago 8.9-10).

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

So, the answer was "Spell Out"

Threadendsokbye

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

I can't believe we have to spell this out for you.

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― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

I think the approved style varies slightly for cardinal, ordinal, and nominative numbers, too.

― elmo, patron saint of nausea (allocryptic), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

four years pass...

trying to think of a word beginning w/ Y and containing V and G in that order

― nakhchivan, Saturday, 22 May 2010 11:10 (fifteen years ago)

yesterevening

― StanM, Saturday, 22 May 2010 11:14 (fifteen years ago)

Yevgeny (as in Kafelnikov, as in tennis player)

― ailsa, Sunday, 23 May 2010 09:17 (fifteen years ago)

Yeving (Spenserian 'giving')

― woof, Sunday, 23 May 2010 09:53 (fifteen years ago)

You'veLostThatLovingFeeling :-)

― StanM, Sunday, 23 May 2010 09:54 (fifteen years ago)

yvirgangsmaður (the icelandic word for terrorist)

― StanM, Sunday, 23 May 2010 09:54 (fifteen years ago)

hundreds more here (mostly russian names though) http://www.onelook.com/?lang=all&w=y*v*g*

― StanM, Sunday, 23 May 2010 09:55 (fifteen years ago)

thanks that's a rly useful site

yarovizing!

― nakhchivan, Sunday, 23 May 2010 10:13 (fifteen years ago)

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