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Bookmark or Share- "Year olds" or "year-olds" - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange@tchrist "year-old" is a compound. "fifteen–year-old" is a compound created not by combining the words fifteen, year and old with each other on an equal footing (like "vis-a-vis") where one uses hyphens or where one is a prefix (like "non-English-speaking") where one generally uses hyphens but with one part is already a compound and hence some styles favour the dash to keep the compound ...
- Is it formal or informal to use y/o as an abbreviation of "years old"?Personally, I find it difficult to answer whether years old is formal and y/o is informal. I hope this response is not seen as a definitive answer, but rather one that encourages us to consider how terms such as "formal/informal" may in fact be forcing us to engage with false dichotomies.
- Difference between "ten years old" and "ten-year-olds"They are all 10 year old is not grammatical (in most varieties of English). Ten year old may be used as an adjective, but only attributively ("a ten year old boy"). And your last sentence is back to front: ten years old is an adjectival phrase like brainy, while ten year olds is a noun phrase like a boy. –
- SHOULD I BUY A USED CAR THATS 10+ years old? : r/UsedCars - RedditNot really. This logic implies that the only way to have a reliable vehicle is to have a car payment. OP is talking about spending $10k cash for a 10yr old +/- used car. There's no reason that a 10 year old used Honda / Toyota that was well maintained would always be breaking down. And it certainly wont cost $300 to $500 bucks a month in repairs.
- Is it worth it to upgrade a 10 year old laptop? : r/AskTechnology - RedditAnd there is also the longevity of the rest of the components to consider. a 10 year old laptop is pretty old in the computer world. If you are just using it for web browsing/checking email etc and its plugged in most of the time, then spending the money on an SSD/Ram might be worth it.
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