The 40-Year-Old Virgin and the Missing Hyphen

Posted on December 14, 2005

The title keeps changing slightly for the funny film, The 40-Year-Old Virgin. Defamer.com wades into the grammatical nightmare of the promotional materials for The 40 Year-Old Virgin [sic] feature film starring Steve Carell. In the original materials, there was no hyphen after the word "40" -- but on the DVD release the hyphen has mysteriously reappeared.

A quick visit to the official website indicates the Universal new media department has yet to get the hyphen-adding memo (note correct hyphen usage). But look in the lower right hand corner and the soundtrack appears to have the hyphen, yet when you click through to the ordering page, the hyphen disappears once again!

Our heads are starting to hurt now.