Monday, May 21, 2018

word choice - "One half" vs "a half"

I'm working on a copy editing project and in the copy they use





...only nine and one-half kilometres long...




I have decided the hyphen is wrong. However one half sounds awkward to me. Is that just because of usage? So I'm wondering: are both nine and one half and nine and a half correct? Or is one more formal? In the end, which is preferred?

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