[Ads-l] hypercorrect pluralization of attributives

[MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)]

> 
> I think singular nouns for height are so common as to be safely idiomatic.
> 
> She’s five feet eight
> She’s five foot eight
> 
> The latter sounds better to my ear, perhaps because the number calculator in the brain is treating this like a “five-mile walk". But
> 
> She’s five feet eight inches tall
> * She’s five foot eight inch tall


I got a woman who stands six-foot-four
Her head on the pillow
And her feet on the floor

Too tall to mambo
My baby's too tall to mambo
My girl is too tall to mambo
But I love my baby just the same

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