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Bookmark or Share- Should it be 10 US$ or US$ 10? - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange15. If you're going to use a symbol rather than spell out the currency's name, you should always put the currency symbol directly to the left of the digits: "$10" and never "10 $". As for the placement of the country indicator, it's generally before the symbol/amount string: "US $10", although I have seen "$10 US" in magazines as well, so (as ...
- numbers - How to say the total amount? - English Language & Usage Stack ...0. I'm not sure if the saying of the total amount USD 23,428.32 is correct below (esp. the 'cent' part after the dot): Say U.S. dollars twenty-three thousand four hundred and twenty-eight and thirty-two cents. And if it is 23,428.00, do I say. Say U.S. dollars twenty-three thousand four hundred and twenty-eight only. numbers.
- Addressing a former office-holder by that office's titleAs far as I can tell from perusing other official governmental protocol guides, this remains the formal practice in the U.S. In common practice, very high officials such as the U.S. president have been granted a "courtesy title" for many years now, and the "courtesy title" is trickling down.
- 'the USA' vs. 'the US' - English Language & Usage Stack ExchangeThe Chicago Manual of Style, 15th Edition (2003) comes out strongly in favor of spelling out United States (rather than abbreviating it) when the term is used as a noun and not an adjective: 15.34"U.S." or "US." Except in scientific style, U.S. traditionally appears with periods.
- Why are the United States often referred to as America?Wikipedia has a good section on how U.S. citizens came to be known as Americans. It's interesting to note that in other languages, U.S. citizens are not so easily confused with other inhabitants of North and South America. For example, some Spanish-speaking people use the term norteamericanos.
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