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Bookmark or Share- What is the plural form of "zero"? - English Language & Usage Stack ...If I Google "zeroes", I get the definition for the verb "zero", for which it claims "zeroes" is the third person present tense. If I were writing something using both words, I think I personally would use "zeros" for the plural and "zeroes" for the verb - e.g. "when he zeroes the counter, the digits all change to zeros". –
- Mixing use of K for thousands and MM for millionsI worked in banking for 27 years (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and Bank of America), and my experience in financial services was that M and MM were consistently used for thousands and millions, respectively.
- What does 'K' mean in '20K' when talking about prices?True. The letter is described to show '1000'. The prefix 'kilo' is derived from the Greek word chilioi or khilioi.
- When writing large numbers, should a comma be inserted?It's just preference. The only reason larger numbers have them are because there are usually too many zeroes to eye. Numbers in the low thousands you can easily tell how many zeros there are without commas. –
- What is the correct possessive for nouns ending in "‑s"?On the use of so-called 'zero genitive', marked by a simple apostrophe in spelling ('), and the 's possessive with nouns ending with an s, Quirk, Greenbaum, Leech and Svartvik specify in A Comprehensive grammar of the English Language (pp. 320 & 321) that:
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