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 should be used to connect the numerals more nearly related. For a similar reason the hyphen should be used in the specification of numbered streets, as in Eighty-second Street or One-hundred-and- twenty-first Street. The hyphen makes the phrase awkward in appearance, but it is of real service, for by dictation the words Eighty-second Street might be misunderstood as Eighty (or 80) Second Street. Two numerals so connected as to express an amount that represents unity and not division, as twenty-seven, should always be compounded.

Compounds of half, quarter, eighth, etc., are usually conjoined by the hyphen, as


 * eighth-barrel
 * half-barrel
 * half-crown
 * half-dollar
 * half-dozen
 * half-holiday
 * half-past
 * half-witted
 * half-yearly
 * quarter-barrel
 * quarter-day
 * quarter-section

but quartermaster and headquarters are not.

Numerals of one syllable used before the suffix -fold, or with the words score, penny, and pence, are consolidated, as in


 * fourfold
 * fourpence
 * fourscore
 * halfpence
 * halfpenny
 * sixpence
 * twelvepence
 * twofold
 * twopenny

but numerals of two syllables are made separate words, as in a hundred fold, twenty score, fifteen pence. When used as an adjective qualifier, as in fifteen-penny tax, the hyphen may be used.