Why do we say “30 years old”, but “a 30-year-old man”? - laremy.sg | The Official Website of Laremy Lee (李庭辉)

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Sun, 29 Mar 2009

Why do we say “30 years old”, but “a 30-year-old man”?

All I wanted to know was how and when to use the hyphen when writing out someone’s age in English, but I found this instead. (More linguistics stuff here.)

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