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- 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"
- 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 "
- In a 40 - WordReference Forums
A Forty (40 acres) is known as a 1 4 of a quarter Square Mile In the Homestead Acts (1860s–), farmers were granted a quarter section; a section was nominally 1 square mile containing 640 acres, a quarter section was 160 acres, and the quarter section was itself subdivided into four quarter-quarter sections of 40 acres each: two front forty
- The landscape hardens into a dungeon of space - WordReference Forums
美国散文集The Solace of Open Spaces中的难句 At twenty, thirty, and forty degrees below zero, not only does your car not work, but neither do your mind and body The landscape hardens into a dungeon of space During the winter, while I was riding to find a new calf, my jeans froze to the saddle, and in
- 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"
- Ten years has passed or Ten years have passed?
I would definitely use a singular in "Ten days weeks months years is a long time to wait " If "ten years" really means "a period of ten years" then I'm happy with a singular: " After ten years has passed you can apply for possession of the land " But if you want to emphasise the cycle of time, then "have" sounds better Ten years have passed - ten long, lonely years - since Bill died at sea
- Plough the lower forty - WordReference Forums
It says forty is used because 40 acres was the typical size of a piece of land Lower forty must mean something like the lower part of the land then I am well aware of the lower forty-eight, in fact googling lower forty turns up mostly references to lower forty-eight! I am still not sure our to translate it in French though
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