- Forty or Fourty - WordReference Forums
Forty is the correct spelling, at least in the United States It does get confusing, because it's related to the word "four", but "40" is properly spelled "forty"
- hyphen in numbers [writing numbers] | WordReference Forums
Could you please explain this rule to me? Does it mean that numbers thirty-one, forty-five seventy-seven ninety-nine, etc are written with a hyphen but thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty, and ninety aren't? But the numbers that are between them are written with a hyphen You
- forty-five hundred - WordReference Forums
No, forty-five hundred = four thousand five hundred = 4,500 "Forty-five hundred" is the most common way of expressing this in speech The other way sounds slightly more formal Ex 2200= twenty-two hundred The area has enough seating for seventy-eight hundred (7,800) people X college has (5,550) fifty-five hundred (and) fifty undergraduate
- forty (not fourty?) | WordReference Forums
Les dejo la explicación de wikipedia: Notwithstanding being related to the word "four" (4), 40 is spelled "forty", and not "fourty" The reason is that etymologically (also in accents without the horse-hoarse merger), the words have different vowels, "forty" containing a contraction in the same way that "fifty" contains a contraction of "five"
- at a forty year low - WordReference Forums
Is at a forty-year low: is at the lowest rate it has been at in forty years
- four fourteen forty - WordReference Forums
I was curious to know how the difference in spelling between four, fourteen and forty came about Can anyone tell me? (I know, another word history question ) Thank you in advance, SMS:)
- 40 year 40 years old - WordReference Forums
A forty minutes' ride or a forty-minute ride? It is because it's a fixed expression (Seven years' war was in the 18th century, while Six-day war in the 200th century, hence, a more ''modern'' name (six-day instead of six days')? It does seem a bit strange, doesn't it? What we've got in such phrases is an implication of personification
- one hundred forty. - WordReference Forums
In American English dialect I constantly see numbers over one hundred written as for example " one hundred forty " compared to British English " one hundred and forty Is this lack of the conjunction " and " grammatically correct, and is this due to the Spanish influence " ciento cuarenta "
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