Thanks to gazumped and to PinkElephant and my apologies for this delayed reply.
I"m afraid I've asked Evernot support about this many months ago and got an unsatisfactory reply. I'm using Safari on a Mac running Catalina with the latest Evernote 7.14 and the recent Web Clipper 7.12.3 and still have that number problem. This has been happening to me for years.