Sunday, February 10, 2008

Numbers and Hyphens

Seen in a Gap store window.

Nineteen-Sixty Nine is wrong. Make it Nineteen Sixty-Nine.

(If we want to be really pedantic, we need a hyphen here also: 14-oz. boxes. That’s because 14-oz. is being used as a premodifying adjective: it precedes and describes the noun boxes.)

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