To: Tax-chick
"Thirty-1-year-old"
Weird Associated Press grammar | typso ping
Thirty 1-year-olds? And you thought you had it hard.
42 posted on
05/25/2007 8:52:32 AM PDT by
clyde asbury
(The nobility of England, my lord, would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount)
To: Ryan Spock; TheMom; TChris; Xenalyte; Semper Vigilantis; georgiadevildog; Chad Fairbanks; ...
"Thirty-1-year-old"
Typso ping!
This is mildly amusing, but it's also an example of a whole array of errors in writing ages. The one that drives me nuts is "years-old," as in, "I will be forty-one years-old in July."
43 posted on
05/25/2007 8:58:50 AM PDT by
Tax-chick
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