Height

[Kyung]

Everybody seems to do this differently.

If they just say five eight. No inches, no feet, no nothing. What do you put?

Five-eight
five, eight
5, 8

Let's get some consensus.

[Brenda Rogers]

I do 5-8. Others do 5'8". Still others do other things, I'm sure. But I would use numerals no matter what since it's a measurement.

[LeAnne Law]

I use either five-eight or 5-8. If measurements have been referred to earlier in the transcript, I'll use numbers. If not, I'll write it out.

[Denise Riffle]

I think Morson says 5-8.

As a scopist, I see it many ways. I go with reporter preference, which doesn't help form a consensus here.

[Marge Teilhaber (TILE hobber)]

"I'm five eight" = I'm 5'8".

[Phil Stillerman]

Five-eight is my vote.

[Brenda Rogers]

Oh, I didn't see the last line about consensus. Not sure that's possible, other than agreeing that there's more than one way of reflecting it.

If I were using number conversion, I'd do 5'8", but since I don't, I let what I write stand, which is 5-8.

[Phil Stillerman]

Brenda
If the speaker didn't say "five feet, eight inches" I would just tran it as five-eight, or five, eight. if the speaker said feet and inches, that's another story. Then I would probably use the ' and ".

[YVONNE FENNELLY]

I was told by someone way back when, it's 5-8.

[Norma Parrott]

I would do "five, eight" if it is the reporter's preference to spell out 1 through 10. I would not use the hyphen.

I'm anxious to see what everyone else thinks.

Norma

[Norma Parrott]

I thought I had deleted this. Now my face is redder than usual.

[kathy - iamwrdsmth]

I use five-eight.

if they say inches or feet then I would write it:

five feet eight inches

kathy

[Rhoda Collins]

Our firm does five-eight.....