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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
- 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 (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"
- seasoned hacking chestnut, the conqueror of forty [game: conkers]
hi again! I have really no idea about the red part, what is that hacking chestnut? that was mean of Wells to shoulder him into the square ditch because he would not swop his little snuffbox for Well's seasoned hacking chestnut, the conqueror of 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
- 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
- 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
- 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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