- forty (not fourty?) - WordReference Forums
SAludos, soy nuevo en este foro y también un nuevo estudiante de ingles Mi duda es sobre la palabra forty (40) Por que cambia la forma como se escribe si el numero viene de four (4) Lei en wikipedia que tiene que ver con algo etimologico pero la verdad la explicación era en ingles y no entendi Les dejo la explicación de wikipedia:
- I weigh 10 stone stones | WordReference Forums
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 the extreme, having to remember the exact conversions of pounds to stones, inches to feet etc is more a way of torturing
- 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
- one hundred forty. - WordReference Forums
But , 140 in Spanish is ciento cuarenta, which is one hundred forty, as it is often written in AE, which differs from one hundred and forty in BE I have heard several times, while in the USA, that within perhaps 30, or 40 years ,in the USA, Spanish speakers will, numerically, be in the majority Is this really the case ? Saludos
- Ten years has passed or Ten years have passed? - WordReference Forums
Hello, Previously I had the impression that a period of time is usually regarded as a singular or uncountable thing, so the verb followed is "-s" in most cases, eg is has does etc But recently, I find a question posted on the net for language learners whose answer only allows
- Forty or Fourty - WordReference Forums
40: "forty" is the correct spelling however,4- four , 14 - fourteen In my opinion, I find the Internet sometimes a bit "dangerous", people write and post opinions, even articles that contain all kinds of errors
- 40 year 40 years old - WordReference Forums
The forty minutes' ride sounds like there would be some kind of ride and that's its official name Otherwise the expressions with apostrophe tend to sound old to me I avoid the structure whenever possible The hyphen makes the phrase into an adjective, and with adjectives there are never s endings The ready-made sweeper The night-long drive
- hyphen in numbers [writing numbers] - WordReference Forums
A compound number is any number that consists of two words; for example, eighty-eight, twenty-two, forty-nine Numbers higher than 99 do not need a hyphen heypresto
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