It's $100 and not 100$.
Sorry to be anal about this, but I see this error frequently.
It's $100 and not 100$.
Sorry to be anal about this, but I see this error frequently.
In the United States, Mexico, Australia, Argentina, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Pacific Island nations, and English-speaking Canada, the dollar or peso symbol precedes the number, unlike most currency symbols. Five dollars or pesos is written and printed as $5, whereas five cents is written as 5¢. In French-speaking Canada, the dollar symbol usually appears after the number (5$), although it sometimes appears in front of it, or instead may even be totally absent
It's $100 and not 100$.
Sorry to be anal about this, but I see this error frequently.
It's $100 and not 100$.
Sorry to be anal about this, but I see this error frequently.
Agreed, it really makes people look like complete dumbasses IMO.
How can you live X years, see prices listed hundreds of thousands of times, and still **** that up? Bugs me to no end.
Conversely, how can you live X years in a world with billions of people not in your own country and not understand that different cultures do things differently?
And no, with things like this there is no inherently "right" way to do it.
Despite my own country putting the currency symbol before the figure (unless we're talking about cents), I believe the euro way (after the figure) is probably better because that's the way you say it.
I like it after because it's like how you read it.
five dollars
5 $
To be fair, if all of English was written the same way that it was spoken then it'd look completely different.
Something like: to be fare, if all ov inglish was ritten the same way that it was spouken then ittid look kompletelee different.
Obviously I'm going a little (OK, a lot) overboard there but you get my point
Off topic but you guys have cool money in New Zealand
But this (and most other English websites/forums) are American based, so that's a moot point.
Putting it after is an eyesore if you're looking at a list of prices in a variable-width font. Big warbling column of dancing dollar signs on the right side. Due to English reading order being left-to-right, putting repetitive things on the left will have them adhere to columns cleanly.
An American friend actually stole $5 from me; "I'm taking this as a souvenir"
5$ & eleventy cents.
Where is the logic in putting the dollar sign before the number? Does one say "I owe him dollar five hundred"?
Now OP, please stop acting as if the United States of America were the only country in the world, or as if their standards were also de-facto standards for the rest of the world.
I was taught to write numbers in the following way: 1 000 000,00$, and will continue to do so even though it hurts some people's feelings. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it's wrong.
Agreed, it really makes people look like complete dumbasses IMO.
How can you live X years, see prices listed hundreds of thousands of times, and still **** that up? Bugs me to no end.