An English woman living in Australia has the dubious honour of being a world-first after medics pulled a live and wriggling 8cm parasitic worm, usually found in snakes, out of her brain.
Can 8cm be replaced by 8-cm?
Thanks.
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Could someone please help?
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I’ve never seen it written as 8-cm. I don’t know if there are any rules on it, but I usually see it with no space, or sometimes with a space ( 8 cm ).
I tend to use a space myself. That’s because I have some eye problems that make it easier to read with more spacing.
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Very strange story.
If you look it up online you will see about 4 different approaches for expressing 8 cm. Some of them include hyphens. But like NN, I would just say “8 cm” to keep it simple. I don’t think there is any ambiguity here.
A far more important question is “Did the worm lay eggs?”
Yes, I’d use it as a live and wriggling eight-centimetre parasitic worm.
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