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"a 20-year-old man" (as a compound modifier) and "the 20-year-old" (as a compound noun)—but "a man, who is 20 years old" A numeral with the affix -fold has a hyphen (15-fold), but when spelled out takes a solid construction (fifteenfold). Numbers, spelled out or not, with added -odd: sixteen-odd, 70-odd.
The hyphen ‐ is a punctuation ... [20] Compound modifiers ... Three-hundred-year-old trees are an indeterminate number of trees that are each 300 years old.
Everyone remembers July 20, ... Do not use separators other than hyphens. 20070415: Do not omit hyphens. ... 1989|7|23}} years old returns: 35 years old; Date ...
For years after 2009, twenty eleven, twenty fourteen, etc. are more common, even in years earlier than 2009 BC/BCE. Likewise, the years after 1009 (until 1099) are also read in the same manner (e.g. 1015 is either ten fifteen or, rarely, one thousand fifteen).
Eva Longoria and Cris Abrego have known each other for 20 years. As two of entertainment’s most prominent Latino figures, they have developed a strong friendship around shared experiences and a ...
This order is used in both the traditional all-numeric date (e.g., "1/21/24" or "01/21/2024") and the expanded form (e.g., "January 21, 2024"—usually spoken with the year as a cardinal number and the day as an ordinal number, e.g., "January twenty-first, twenty twenty-four"), with the historical rationale that the year was often of lesser ...
Many double-barrelled names are written without a hyphen, causing confusion as to whether the surname is double-barrelled or not. Notable persons with unhyphenated double-barrelled names include politicians David Lloyd George (who used the hyphen when appointed to the peerage) and Iain Duncan Smith, composers Ralph Vaughan Williams and Andrew Lloyd Webber, military historian B. H. Liddell Hart ...
cattalo, from cattle and buffalo [2]; donkra, from donkey and zebra (progeny of donkey stallion and zebra mare) cf. zedonk below; llamanaco, from llama and guanaco [3]; wholphin, from whale and dolphin [2]