Help me - £2,000,000

[27icey]

Instead of writing £2,000,000 can I write £2million or £2 million - or is there another way to write it?

Thanks

£2m

But is it £2 million or £2million ?

You'd say 2 million without the £ sign, so I'd think it would still be £2 million? Not sure why it would need to be £2million but I might be overthinking 😂

I'd put a space between the 2 and the word million.

Just my opinion, but I think you could have any of:

£2m
2 million pounds
two million pounds

but not

£2 million
which I would read as “two pounds million”. It just doesn’t scan.

and not

£2million
which is just removing a space for no reason

You need the currency sign.

2 million pounds are vastly different than 2 million Swedish Kronor.

£2 million or 2 million pounds.

£2mn

No, not in this century.

We always write it £2M, but some write £2m

I'd write £2m or just write it out in full as £2,000,000

Guardian style guide: million
in copy use m for sums of money, units or inanimate objects: £10m, 45m tonnes of coal, 30m doses of vaccine; but million for people or animals: 1 million people, 23 million rabbits, etc; use m in headlines

BBC News style guide: Millions and billions are spelled out, except where they are used with currencies or in headlines (five million people, 10 billion grains of sand, £5m).

Telegraph style guide: Use figures at all times with currency signs and abbreviations: £1, $2. Abbreviate million to m and billion to bn in headlines.

@27icey if what you are looking to say is:-
"HappiestSleeping, I would like to give you £2m", you can spell it any way you darn well please.

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I work in a role dealing with gig numbers. In a quick email I would write £2M.

• big numbers

I think if you are writing words, then complete the job by writing

two million pounds

If you are using numerals and signs, then stick to that
£2,000,000.

If it is in a text to a friend or a thread on MN, it doesn't matter of course.

This

Was hoping for a thread saying you'd won the lottery and everyone would chip in about what'd they'd do.

Style guides all the way, as per @MasterBeth