- 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"
- 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
- 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
- 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"
- 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"
- Fool of forty-five degrees - WordReference Forums
"Well, you are a fool of forty-five degrees!", dice un padre ad un figlio che non ha sfruttato saggiamente a suo favore una situazione Come lo tradurreste? Il testo è dell'Ottocento
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