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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 (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"
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"
Saying dates years [AE vs BE] | WordReference Forums It's normally Twenty oh one, twenty nineteen, nineteen forty-seven, ten sixty-six, nine fifty-seven Two thousand and nineteen, nineteen hundred and forty-seven, one thousand and sixty-six, and nine hundred and fifty-seven would be correct but formal
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
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
40-50% 40%-50% [ writing percentage range ] - WordReference Forums forty to fifty per cent forty per cent to fifty per cent Now do we make our symbols follow that, repeating the sign if we repeat the word? We don't have to, and I would slightly prefer 40–50% in symbols, but more definitely repeating it 40% to 50% when using a word But there are no really strong reasons for or against any of them
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 four hundred - WordReference Forums You might use it if you were talking about items normally counted in hundreds I could just about imagine "forty-four hundred cigarettes" or "forty-four hundred Roman legionaries", but not much else
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