[Ads-l] hypercorrect pluralization of attributives

[Jonathan Lighter]

My grandfather (b. 1884) regularly used the form "five-foot tall."  My
grandmother did not, IIRC.

JL

On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 1:14 AM, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:

> WG:  << True, but the polloi have annoyingly begun to say and write crap
> like
> "five-miles walk." >>
> WB:  Used to take ten-mile runs in the Berkeley Hills as a student.  Never
> been on no fancy-pants <10K run>. Prefer life in my recliner now, anyways.
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