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Shortening dates can make your writing that much snappier, but how do you do it? Should you place an apostrophe before or after the number? Worry not because we’ve put together a complete guide on how to abbreviate years. With our help, you’ll be abbreviating years and using an apostrophe correctly in no time.
Things You Should Know
- Use an apostrophe (’) before the last 2 digits of a year or decade: the year 2011 would be ’11.
- Place an en dash (–) in between a range of years to act as a conjoining “to” or “through.” He lived from 1987–2005.
- Write the date as “month day, year” in American English and “day month year” in British English. We went golfing on Tuesday, August 17, 2010 or We went golfing on Tuesday, 17 August 2010.
Steps
Expert Q&A
Tips
- Be consistent with your abbreviations. In other words, don’t switch between an abbreviated date and a written-out date.[10]Thanks
References
- ↑ https://www.gvsu.edu/cms4/asset/CC3BFEEB-C364-E1A1-A5390F221AC0FD2D/apostrophes-with-comic(2).pdf
- ↑ https://brandguide.asu.edu/brand-elements/writing-content/time-days-months-years
- ↑ https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/punctuation/apostrophe_introduction.html
- ↑ https://brandguide.asu.edu/brand-elements/writing-content/time-days-months-years
- ↑ https://www.unr.edu/writing-speaking-center/student-resources/writing-speaking-resources/british-american-english
- ↑ https://langster.org/en/blog/how-to-write-dates-in-english
- ↑ https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/grammar/british-grammar/dates
- ↑ https://wmich.edu/writing/rules/dates
- ↑ https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/yrs
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