Re: 0 month or 0 months?

[Lindsey Durway <LDurway -at- PAV -dot- COM>]

Up to and including 1.0, it's singular.  0 or 1 month.  1.1 months.  At
least, that's what mammy taught me, and it shore does make sense.

Lindsey

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> Our product calculates the age of employees based on their date of birth.
> The result is a display of the age in years, months, and days. If the age
> is
> less than one of the units (i.e., 0), is the ending plural?
>
>         32 Years, 0 Month, 0 Day
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> OR
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>         32 Years, 0 Months, 0 Days
>
> ?????
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> Lorin
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