Solicitor Typed: £X00.000.00 - Typo or Correct?

Foresty_Forest

My solicitor recently issued me with a letter, with instructions for writing a cheque for a six figure sum. He'd typed out what to write on the cheque and used a full stop where I'd expect a comma or apostrophe? Like this: X00.000.00 Is this a typo or correct? Btw. The X is just to keep the amount private.

csgohan4

contact the solicitor to be sure?

masonic

A comma, space or no thousands delimeter would be correct in the UK (the ISO 31-0 standard specifies that a space should be used, not a comma or full stop). I doubt the European convention of using a full stop would cause problems. The amount in words on the cheque would ensure the amount was not misinterpreted.

Malthusian

It's almost certainly a typo. I would ignore him and not include any thousand separators at all (just the decimal point). Presumably you're writing the amount in words on the cheque as well, which should eliminate any possibility of misreading.

Fun fact: in Europe they sometimes use the full stop and comma the other way round (so exactly a hundred thousand = 100.000,00) but using the same symbol for thousand and decimal separators is unambiguously wrong.

Albermarle

Fun fact: in Europe they sometimes use the full stop and comma the other way round (so exactly a hundred thousand = 100.000,00)

Yes I work for a Continental based company and that has caused confusion more than once !

Also the habit of writing dates the 'wrong' way around . Such as today is 12/23/2020. Although not sure if that is a US thing that some other countries have picked up through US IT/tech dominance.

MDMD

Foresty_Forest said:

My solicitor recently issued me with a letter, with instructions for writing a cheque for a six figure sum. He'd typed out what to write on the cheque and used a full stop where I'd expect a comma or apostrophe? Like this: X00.000.00 Is this a typo or correct? Btw. The X is just to keep the amount private.

csgohan4 said:

contact the solicitor to be sure?

As above, surely if writing a large cheque you would call the solicitor to avoid any doubt?

Thrugelmir

Hyphen normally if written. Though people rarely write cheques these days.  Machines use full stops when printing cheques. 

Shankers

csgohan4 said:

contact the solicitor to be sure?

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