I've been checking essays lately and I saw a sentence that read, "...his experiences as a fifteen year old boy..." This comes up a lot in English and in journalism: is it fifteen-year-old or fifteen year old or 15 year old or 15 year-old or 15-year-old? What about fifteen years old?
I know the answer, but I thought I would look it up just in case I've gotten rusty! Here is a helpful website I found: The "Year Old" Hyphen As for fifteen vs. 15 - fifteen is correct for English class. We use MLA format. Newspaper uses AP style, which, for numbers, follows the same APA rules below: "MLA Style spells out numbers that can be written in one or two words (three, fifteen, seventy-six, one thousand, twelve billion) and to use numerals for other numbers (2¾; 584; 1,001; 25,000,000). APA Style, on the other hand, generally uses words for numbers below 10 and numerals for numbers 10 and above." So, in English class (MLA format) the correct way is fifteen-year-old. In newspaper (AP style) it is 15-year-old. Now we know! Comments are closed.
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