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?
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?