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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
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 "
Saying dates years [AE vs BE] | WordReference Forums It's normally Twenty oh one, twenty nineteen, nineteen forty-seven, ten sixty-six, nine fifty-seven Two thousand and nineteen, nineteen hundred and forty-seven, one thousand and sixty-six, and nine hundred and fifty-seven would be correct but formal
to drink a 40 - WordReference Forums In Canada, "a forty" is a shortened form of the common expression "a forty-ouncer", which is a forty ounce bottle of any hard liquor Many decades ago, Canada started using the metric system for everything, so the labels on these bottles no longer say that they contain forty ounces of liquor In spite of this, the nickname persists
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
40 year 40 years old - WordReference Forums A forty minutes' ride or a forty-minute ride? It is because it's a fixed expression (Seven years' war was in the 18th century, while Six-day war in the 200th century, hence, a more ''modern'' name (six-day instead of six days')? It does seem a bit strange, doesn't it? What we've got in such phrases is an implication of personification
One hundred pounds - WordReference Forums Is it correct to say: "Are you really going to pay one hundred pounds for those shoes?" When I was in a shop earlier I heard someone say "I'm not going to pay forty pound for those", is this incorrect? Also, when writing, should it always be hyphenated such as one-hundred-pound and forty-pound?
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