Title: number format
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# number format

 *  [deannethomas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deannethomas/)
 * (@deannethomas)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/number-format/)
 * I would like the number of comments to be spelled out, ex “two comments” vs. “
   2 comments”. Does anyone know of a way to set that format?

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 *  Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * (@otto42)
 * WordPress.org Admin
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/number-format/#post-864883)
 * There’s no particularly easy way to do it. There’s some code over here that will
   convert a number to english: [http://bloople.net/num2text/cnumlib.txt](http://bloople.net/num2text/cnumlib.txt)
 * Using that, you could construct a plugin to do it. A filter on “comments_number”
   to find the digits and replace with text (by running it through that function)
   would probably work. It’s not trivial though.

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