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"stood 5'2"" read as "stood five feet and two inches"?

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oristarA
 
Reply Thu 26 Mar, 2015 09:48 pm

Context:
FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY
In April 2010, Gingerich was twelve years and two months old, stood 5'2",
weighed about eighty pounds, and was a sixth grader at Wawassee Middle School. On
April 20, 2010, Gingerich and Colt Lundy shot and killed
stepfather, and they were subsequently apprehended in Peru, Illinois, while traveling to
Arizona.
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layman
 
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Reply Thu 26 Mar, 2015 09:54 pm
@oristarA,
Exactly. 5' means five feet flat. 5' 7" means plus 7 inches. That's the standard notation.
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Reply Thu 26 Mar, 2015 10:14 pm
well, yeah, that's what it MEANS, but that's not how I would READ it, which would be either "five foot, two" or "five two".
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