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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 ...
- What is the difference between "aged" and "age"?aged, adj. : someone who is aged 18, 35, 70, etc. is 18, 35, 70, etc. years old. A woman aged 50 has given birth to twins. Men aged between 18 and 35 are most at risk from violent crime. In the second case, a group of students that are of college age are college age (not college aged) students.
- Which is it: "1½ years old" or "1½ year old"? [duplicate]It would come much more naturally to a native speaker to say not "That man is a 50-year-old" [note also the hyphenation here] but "That is a 50-year-old man"; similarly, not "That kid is a one-and-a-half-year-old today" [a construction I have never heard anyone use when referring to half years as part of someone's age], but "That is a one-and-a-half-year-old kid" (omitting the 'today'), or ...
- vocabulary - What is the term for a child that's in between toddler and ...'Child' for me covers infant to teenager but feels best for the range toddler to pre-teen (if you see a sixth month old I would tend to call them a baby not a child, even though 'child' is not wrong; words can have overlapping semantic contexts).
- 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. –
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