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The square foot (plural square feet; abbreviated ft2 or sq ft) is an imperial unit and U.S. customary unit (non-SI, non-metric) of area, used mainly in the United States and partially in Bangladesh, Canada, Ghana, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, and the United Kingdom. Regards, Vitor Rabbit. The answer is:
According to NGrams, "sq. ft." or "sq ft" is vastly preferred over "sqft". The use of a hyphen is a stylistic choice but due to the nature of "sq. ft." being two words the options are rather limited: 1000 sq. ft. 1000 square-foot. The specific example of "1000-sqft" is non-standard. Share. Improve this answer. edited Jun 15, 2020 at 7:40.
24. No, units generally do not need capitalization when spelled out. For SI units, the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures is the authority: Unit names are normally printed in roman (upright) type, and they are treated like ordinary nouns. In English, the names of units start with a lower-case letter (even when the symbol for the unit ...
15.71 Periods. In the rare instances in which abbreviations for English units of measure are used in scientific copy, they are usually set without periods; in nonscientific contexts, periods are customary. Chicago then goes on (in section 15.73) to endorse such forms as "sq. ft." and "cu. yd." though it doesn't face the ugly music of "ft.-lb."
It is most certainly an abbreviation for yards, because I happen to have the printed notice that my writer was making notes on and the distance in the original is in yards. I'm just interested why a superscript 'x' should be used as an abbreviation for 'yards', how common it was, and when (if ever) it fell out of regular use.
1. Well you weren't very clear as to what exactly you are considering to hyphenate. "1.65-million square feet", "1.65-million-square feet", "1.65-million-square-feet" or some other combination. Either way you should do none of those. As you can see from this, "square feet" is rarely, or in fact almost never hyphenated.
+1 for noting that the abbreviation for inches is really supposed to be double prime. I also wanted to explicitly note also that the abbreviation for feet is single prime (′). Of course many people use single quote and double quote as easy-to-type substitutes; however, typographical mavens would insist on using the correct characters. –
That's not actually correct. The SI unit for time is the second, for mass the kilogram. All singular. But the second point still stands: when using the names, you should use them as any other name in the language used (i.e. English in this case), including the plural form where needed (and other things such as capitalization rules).
8.5" x 11" seems to be the cleanest way to write these numbers in a text. Other proper ways are 8 1/2" x 11", 8.5in x 11in, 8.5 x 11 Inches.
Nov 30, 2016 at 13:45. 1. The abbreviated form of pounds and ounces are “lb” and “oz”. However, 6'9'' does mean 6 feet and 9 inches. For instance, think about TV and PC monitors for instance (24'' = 24 inches across). 6' is the size a fairly tall human. – MorganFR. Nov 30, 2016 at 13:45.