twenty-one or twenty one

[sixf00t4]

so which is more gramatically correct?

word suggests both when you type "twentyone"

anyone have a clue?

[NeoStarO1]

twenty-one

always a dash in the middle.
Look at how people write checks always with a dash in the middle of them.

[sixf00t4]

but just because "everyone does it like that" doesn't necessarily mean it is correct.

[Knothead]

NeoStar is correct. It is "Twenty-one".


signed, your "forty-something" knothead

[Creatures]

yeah that's right sixfoot, ut here in germany we change the grammer so it fits to the people, if we cant fix those who use the system we have to fix the system =) quite simple =)

but i'd say too twenty-one <-- we learnt that in school and most of the time that's the old english style^^

Creatures

<editor>The hyphenated version (twenty-one) is grammatically correct.</editor>

[The Real Bingo]

Neither. 21.

[sixf00t4]

typical philly.

[Theophylact]

Depends. It's good to have twenty one-dollar bills, bad to have twenty-one-dollar bills...

[Patrick]

The hyphen is used to indicate the two words are treated as one.
http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/compounds.htm

Twenty-one is the accepted form but I think twentyone would be closer to correct today than twenty one. A country-school teacher and a country school teacher.