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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 (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-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
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"
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 "
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
the wrong side of forty - WordReference Forums How would you idiomatically say "the wrong side of forty"? It's a humorous way of saying you're over 40 without giving away your real age Quiero decir (referring to a person running a marathon for the first time) : I'm too old for that carry-on I'm the wrong side of forty! Ya no estoy para
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-ish? - WordReference Forums Bonjour, How would yu say that someone looks 40-ish, or about forty? Would yu say "il semble etre a la quarantaine"? or is there is more idiomatic way to