Tall ships community mourns for Bounty, crew
November 4, 2012 at 6:00 pm in Duluth News Tribune
One week after the sinking of the HMS Bounty off the coast of Cape Hatteras, N.C., grief and questions continue to swirl around a captain’s fateful decision to sail the wooden replica ship into a powerful hurricane system.
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Fourteen members of the vessel’s 16-person crew
I wonder why 14 is spelled out but they used numerals for the crew number?
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AP style dictates that if you start off a sentence with a number, you have to spell it out rather than using a numeral.
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What does it say to do when there are two numbers in the same sentence?
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That is what it says to do.
If the sentence starts with the number, spell it out. If it’s within the sentence, use the numeral if the number is higher than ten.
There are tons of exceptions to the general AP style guide rules as well, some of which can be found here: http://suite101.com/article/the-ap-style-guide-to-numbers-a102809
But that does mean that a number can be dealt with two different ways within a single sentence, which may seem a bit weird.
Do note that the rules can change from year to year. For example, AP style used to be Web site, and now it’s website.
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