Talk:-year-old

RFD discussion: November 2019

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-year-old

"-year-old" in "15-year-old" is not a grammatical suffix, any more than "15-" is a prefix. Equinox ◑ 20:59, 11 November 2019 (UTC)

I agree, and I added the missing definition to old (noun). -Mike (talk) 22:26, 11 November 2019 (UTC)

Totally agree. Delete This is nothing more than standard grammar practice when forming multiword adjectives, such as "five-dollar bill". Or "He's an always-catch-the-seven-o'clock-train kind of commuter". The words are hyphenated and any plurality removed (since English adjectives do not have any plural agreement with the noun, unlike many other languages.). -- ALGRIF talk 22:15, 12 November 2019 (UTC)

Delete per proponent. Canonicalization (talk) 08:18, 13 November 2019 (UTC)

Delete for the nominator's reason. — SGconlaw (talk) 08:35, 13 November 2019 (UTC)

• Who was that annoying editor who made loads of ridiculous "adjective form" of entries for things like white-dove, toilet-paper, pet-shop, random-number? This entry is a little different, but I wouldn't mind a keep or delete. The fact that year-olds exists could be a valid point. --Vealhurl (talk) 21:48, 15 November 2019 (UTC)

• year-old without the hyphen is irrelevant. This thread is for the supposed suffix -year-old. Equinox ◑ 22:48, 17 November 2019 (UTC)

  Perhaps. We have an entry at year-old (made by Wonderfool) which is far from satisfactory and should be borne into account at the time of deciding the outcome of this entry. --Vealhurl (talk) 12:14, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

• Keep if it saves a host of entries like 99-year-old. DonnanZ (talk) 17:30, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

  You must be referring to all of those hard redirects to year-old? This can be deleted without affecting those. -Mike (talk) 18:38, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

• Delete. I just noticed that this has already been deleted recently (see Talk:-day-old). -Mike (talk) 18:54, 18 November 2019 (UTC)
  • Speedy delete, then. Canonicalization (talk) 18:59, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

Deleted as I now see it failed an RFD previously. Equinox ◑ 19:09, 18 November 2019 (UTC)