Random question - Your thoughts regarding WWII versus WW2? I correct my students' essays all the time making them write WWII, so I was just curious about your thoughts. Thanks.
For that matter, I don't ever use Arabic numerals in a sentence or title. I guess I'm a traditionalist that way, but it looks odd to me. That is, I'd write something like "There were twenty horses in the second pasture, and thirty cows in the first." I'll often seen people write "There were 20 horses. . . ." but I don't like it. It doesn't seem a proper use of the convention to me.
So I suppose for that reason I'll use the Roman numeral form of two in a title, but not the Arabic. So I use WWII and WWI, not WW2 and WW1.
I'll otherwise break it up in a longer text and use World War Two and the Second World War, but never World War 2.
I don't know if its the impact of cell phones and texting, but a lot of sloppy contractions and truncations seem to show up in print all the time now, even in written texts.
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Random question - Your thoughts regarding WWII versus WW2? I correct my students' essays all the time making them write WWII, so I was just curious about your thoughts. Thanks.
I go with WWII.
For that matter, I don't ever use Arabic numerals in a sentence or title. I guess I'm a traditionalist that way, but it looks odd to me. That is, I'd write something like "There were twenty horses in the second pasture, and thirty cows in the first." I'll often seen people write "There were 20 horses. . . ." but I don't like it. It doesn't seem a proper use of the convention to me.
So I suppose for that reason I'll use the Roman numeral form of two in a title, but not the Arabic. So I use WWII and WWI, not WW2 and WW1.
I'll otherwise break it up in a longer text and use World War Two and the Second World War, but never World War 2.
I don't know if its the impact of cell phones and texting, but a lot of sloppy contractions and truncations seem to show up in print all the time now, even in written texts.
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