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- 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"
- 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 "
- 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
- I weigh 10 stone stones - WordReference Forums
I've never heard stones either In Europe we use kilogrammes In the USA they use pounds which makes it difficult as us Brits have to divide the figure by 14 to make it reasonable In Britain one would normally say something like 'Ten stone seven' i e ten stone and seven pounds, rather than a hundred and forty seven pounds To my mind the Imperial system of weights and measures is stupid 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"
- 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
- 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
- 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
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