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Oxford wrote:The places where it does matter are summarized in the Oxford Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage (2004), the most important being

1. to make clear the unifying of the sense in compound expressions such as punch-drunk, cost-benefit analysis, or weight-carrying, or compounds in attributive use (that is, in front of the noun), as in an up-to-date list or the well-known performer;
2. to join a prefix to a proper name (e.g. anti-Darwinian);
3. to avoid misunderstanding by distinguishing phrases such as twenty-odd people and twenty odd people, or a third-world conflict and a third world conflict;
4. to clarify the use of a prefix, as in recovering from an illness and re-covering an umbrella;
5. to clarify compounds with similar adjacent sounds, such as sword-dance, co-opt, tool-like.
6. to represent the use of a common element in a list of compounds, such as four-, six-, and eight-legged animals.
7. in dividing a word across a line-break. Guidance on word division is given in reference books such as the Oxford Colour Spelling Dictionary (1996).

Rule 15. Hyphenate all compound numbers from twenty-one through ninety-nine.
Examples: Forty-three persons were injured in the train wreck.
Twenty-three of them were hospitalized.

Xouqoa wrote:I think the real question is whether or not it should have the "th" at the end.

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Zaelath wrote:That's not really grammar, that's style.

Zaelath wrote:one-thousand-four-hundred-and-twenty-sixth, and you will find that varies between style manuals. Per most things in the english language, nothing is incorrect any more anyway; if Jesus's and Jesus' are both correct, this is merely frippery!

Chidoro wrote:You really have free reign with wedding invitations. Style definitely plays a role. I've seen invitations where lettering is all lower case, ones with no punctuation, etc.
I say just do what your fiance prefers with this stuff. If she wants a hyphen, give the lady a hyphen.