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Not foot?

• dempseye 6y ago
  I never noticed this, but after thinking about it for a few minutes it seems that in standard usage there is a difference between attributive adjectives and predicative adjectives. As an attributive adjective, "foot" is indeed correct, e.g. "a 130 foot yacht." As a predicative adjective, "feet" is correct, e.g. "the yacht was 130 feet long." Occasionally, in certain regional variations, you may hear "foot" used in the second case: "the yacht was 130 foot long."