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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb
Must be a regional thing, again. "Six foot tall" sounds perfectly fine to me. I mean, I'm five foot three, not five feet three.
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I found this
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Yes, when the phrase is used as a whole to describe something (when it functions as an adjective phrase before the noun), you hypenate it and use the singular form of the measurement. Eg.: five-yard-long rope; six-foot-tall man; ten-year-old boy.
If the description comes after the verb you don't use hyphens and you use the plural form of the measurement. Eg: the rope is five yards long; the man is six feet tall; the boy is ten years old.
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So you would be a five-foot-three woman, or a woman who is five feet three inches tall.