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 :As I and most others who access this website are American, and most of us never come across the British way of handling quotations and punctuation, we will stay with the American usage unless it becomes a problem (I expect that it won't). Frankly, the British way irks me and entices me to make rampant corrections. I think our readers are smart enough to realize that that period at the end of a URL isn't part of the URL itself. --[[User:Argy|Argy]] 15:27, 16 September 2005 (CDT)
+::Pah. Frankly, American quotation usage strongly irks me, especially in cases of single words. I, too, am enticed to make rampant corrections. I suggest a compromise: use italics for single words and phrases.
+::I prefer the interpretation that 0 - 9 are spelt out because they are single, atomic words, not because they are a single digit in length. By that interpretation, 0 - 12, and possibly 100th, 1000th, 1,000,000th, 1,000,000,000th etc., should be spelt out as well. (Of course, this would be different for different languages.) But my personal preference is to never spell out numbers except for small ordinals and emphatic use.
+::While my personal preference is to be concise and say things in as few ''words'' as possible, I do not have a particular preference for expressing things in as few ''characters'' as possible: I would rather use a longer, more precise word than a shorter word.