- to the south forty - WordReference Forums
"South forty" is an old term that refers figuratively to the lower portion of one's property It's an old farming figure of speech the literal meaning of refers to the lower 40 acres of that property
- 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
- 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:)
- 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"
- 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 head heads of cattle - WordReference Forums
They have forty _____ of cattle which is correct? head or heads "Head", since "cattle" is uncountable I think "bovine" would be countable though So maybe "40 head of cattle" is an idiomatic way to say "40 bovine"
- 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
- 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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