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English alphabet and characters

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Lower-case characters:

Dutch_lower

Upper-case characters

English grammar rules

Nouns

There is no grammatical gender in English, and so the nouns are not marked for it.

The natural gender occurs in animate nous: masculine or feminine.

There are two numbers: singular and plural.

There is one case: genetive (marked by ‘s).

English has definite (the) and indefinite (a/an) articles.

Verbs

English formatting rules

Date formats

First day of the week	Monday
Working days	Monday to Friday
Short date format	dd/MM/yyyy dd/MM/yy d/M/yy d.M.yy yyyy-MM-dd
	e.g. 23/08/2016
Long date format	dd MMMM yyyy d MMMM yyyy
	e.g. 23 August 2016

Numbers and currency

English capitalisation usage

Should be capitalised

People’s names and titles.
Days of week/months.
Geographical names (of countries, counties/states, cities, mountains, hills, etc.).
Headings/titles and column/row headings should start with a capital letter unless a proper noun is featured.
Product names follow the source capitalisation.
Names of the buildings, monuments, tunnels and bridges.
Titles of organisations, institutions, directorates, units, sections, office holders, committees, delegations, etc.
Periods, events, festivals, seasons.

Should NOT be capitalised

Programmes, policies, agendas, strategies, action plans, etc.
Acronyms/initialisms. The existence of an acronym or initialism does not mean that initial capitals must be used when the corresponding expression is written out in full (unless it is a name of the institution).
Do not use capitals for spring, summer, autumn or winter.
Lower case when describing a geographical area (e.g. lower England).

Solutions for British English

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Decimal separator	. (period)
	e.g. 11.50
Thousand separator	, (comma)
	e.g. 2,000, not 2 000
Five and more digit numbers format	split into groups of three from the right using period as a thousand separator
	e.g. 20,000, not 20 000
British currency name	pound
Currency symbol	£
Currency symbol position	before the number
	e.g. £100,248.50