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New No it isn't. In "there's a 3-ft sinkhole" it is, but in "the water is 3 ft deep" it's separate words
You don't have three-children either, you have three children. Your car doesn't have 4-wheels, it has 4 wheels. But it has 4-wheel drive or 4-wheel-drive, since what it has is a single drive system, one attribute of which is that it works on all four wheels; that's what makes it four-wheel.

Not that I was going for you in particular, Scott; I thought you'd do a double-take at having it pointed out and perhaps be able to tell me where it actually comes from. I've been wondering my head off since about 2010; before that, you rarely saw these confused, but now it seems almost nobody can get it right.

Anybody else have any idea how come?
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Christian R. Conrad
Same old username (as above), but now on iki.fi

(Yeah, yeah, it redirects to the same old GMail... But just in case I ever want to change.)
New I blame Twitter and Autocorrect. They're always responsible. ;-)
Seriously, I dunno.

English is such a bastard language that if one (or I, anyway) doesn't frequently review the various rules and conventions then it's very easy to break them.

Cheers,
Scott.
(Who got tripped up on "due to/owing to" a year or so ago.)
     Corpus Christi looks like it's getting hammered. - (mmoffitt) - (20)
         Fingers crossed that it's not as horrible as it might be... - (Another Scott) - (17)
             What's wrong with "They're talking about 3 feet of rain"? -NT - (CRConrad) - (16)
                 Phrasing... - (Another Scott) - (15)
                     Hard to comprehend - (drook) - (1)
                         I'm having a hard time picturing 5" of rain, never mind 50". -NT - (static)
                     No, I meant: What's that freaking hyphen doing there? -NT - (CRConrad) - (12)
                         It's another illustration of my weird typing skills. - (Another Scott) - (11)
                             "I have a 6-foot ladder" -NT - (drook) - (8)
                                 Re: "I have a 6-foot ladder" - (Another Scott) - (7)
                                     My example was a compound modifier, yours was just wrong :-P - (drook) - (6)
                                         I used to subscribe to Car and Driver magazine... - (Another Scott) - (5)
                                             One of the authors I worked with called herself the Queen of Unnecessary Capitalization -NT - (drook) - (4)
                                                 I do that too. I blame it on taking German as a foreign language... -NT - (Another Scott) - (3)
                                                     Didn't take German, but . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (2)
                                                         I do it with quotes - (drook)
                                                         Dunno when it was that modrin-Muricans morphed into eschewing Capitalization.. - (Ashton)
                             No it isn't. In "there's a 3-ft sinkhole" it is, but in "the water is 3 ft deep" it's separate words - (CRConrad) - (1)
                                 I blame Twitter and Autocorrect. They're always responsible. ;-) - (Another Scott)
         Corpus Christi missed the very worst of it. - (a6l6e6x)
         Current Baddest-datum seems: "highest August precipitable water levels" (evah??) - (Ashton)

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