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Old 04-09-2004, 09:35 PM   #1 (permalink)
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twenty-one or twenty one

so which is more gramatically correct?

word suggests both when you type "twentyone"

anyone have a clue?

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twenty-one

always a dash in the middle.
Look at how people write checks always with a dash in the middle of them.
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Old 04-09-2004, 09:43 PM   #3 (permalink)
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but just because "everyone does it like that" doesn't necessarily mean it is correct.
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Old 04-09-2004, 09:49 PM   #4 (permalink)
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NeoStar is correct. It is "Twenty-one".


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Old 04-09-2004, 09:50 PM   #5 (permalink)
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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^^

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Old 04-09-2004, 10:20 PM   #6 (permalink)
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<editor>The hyphenated version (twenty-one) is grammatically correct.</editor>
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Old 04-09-2004, 10:58 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Neither. 21.
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typical philly.

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Old 04-10-2004, 11:31 AM   #9 (permalink)
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Depends. It's good to have twenty one-dollar bills, bad to have twenty-one-dollar bills...
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Old 04-10-2004, 02:34 PM   #10 (permalink)
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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.
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