- £10. 50 ; £13. 99 [pronunciation: saying pounds. ]
£10 50 ~ ten fifty £2 43 ~ two forty-three £99 99 ~ ninety-nine ninety-nine etc In this part of the world people who mention either pounds or pence pee are vanishingly rare
- twoish OR two-ish? - WordReference Forums
I am editing a piece in which the character uses the word "twoish" to reference an approximation of time "It's five thirty now How does twoish sound?" Would you, for clarity, toss a hyphen in "two-ish" to add clarity? Or is the unhyphenated version "twoish" clear enough? Thank you for any
- él tiene cuarenta y pico años - WordReference Forums
él tiene cuarenta y pico años He's forty something (years old) He's around forty years old He's about forty years old I've also seen fortyish
- saying 3-digit years | WordReference Forums
Hello everyone, Can somebody tell me how 3-digit years, e g 644 BC, 985 AD, are said in English ? Is it six forty-four, nine eighty-five ? Thank you
- Twenty one twenty-one | WordReference Forums
¿Los numeros a partir del veinte se ponen con un guión para separarlos (twenty-five, forty-three ) o se ponen sin guión? Lo he visto escrito de ambas formas y ahora me surgen dudas sobre cuál de las dos es la correcta o si ambas lo son ¡Gracias!
- One hundred pounds - WordReference Forums
Is it correct to say: "Are you really going to pay one hundred pounds for those shoes?" When I was in a shop earlier I heard someone say "I'm not going to pay forty pound for those", is this incorrect? Also, when writing, should it always be hyphenated such as one-hundred-pound and forty-pound?
- Ring-bo-ree | WordReference Forums
"And they bought a pig, and some green jackdaws, And a lovely monkey with lollipop paws, And forty bottles of ring-bo-ree, And no end of Stilton cheese " This from "The Jumblies", by Edward Lear What is the definition of "ring-bo-ree"?
- 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
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