Without rewording, would you hyphenate these? Plurals a days-long / weeks-long / months-long / years-long / decades-long / centuries-long debate Singulars a day-long / week-long / month-long / year-long / decade-long / century-long debate a seconds-long pause (plural) a second-long pause (singular) a minutes-long silence (plural) a minute-long pause (singular) If not, in which examples would you drop the hyphens? Thank you.
this is just another example of the simple rule for multiple words being used as an adjective, that you seem to be forgetting to apply, dill...
I was just ensuring this was in fact the case. I've seen written forms of 'daylong,' 'monthslong,' 'decadeslong,' 'centurieslong,' etc., which look ridiculous to me.
'daylong' and 'decadelong' are actual, acceptable words in most--if not all--dictionaries... 'monthlong' is acceptable in some dictionaries... however, the plural version of all 3 is always hyphenated... you'll see all kinds of errors... just because some who don't know any better use them, doesn't make them legit...
