Re: foot or feet

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From: Toni.Kennedy
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 1994 02:35

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Would you say "the length of the [whatever] is one-half feet"? All the places
where I've plied my technical editing trade were very nit-picky about this.
A fraction of any unit can never be *more* than one unit, no matter how
the fraction is expressed. -- Toni K.

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