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- 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
- 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
- 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 "
- 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"
- 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-one forty one - WordReference Forums
Hi, I see some similar combination with hyphen-dash and in some other writings without hyphen-dash I cannot distinguish when we should use hyphen-dash for some combinations For example, I exemplified two sentences which are used of "41" One has used "forty-one" and other "forty one"! Why
- 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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