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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"
- 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 "
- 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:)
- 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
- forty head heads of cattle - WordReference Forums
They have forty _____ of cattle which is correct? head or heads "Head", since "cattle" is uncountable I think "bovine" would be countable though So maybe "40 head of cattle" is an idiomatic way to say "40 bovine"
- the wrong side of forty - WordReference Forums
How would you idiomatically say "the wrong side of forty"? It's a humorous way of saying you're over 40 without giving away your real age Quiero decir (referring to a person running a marathon for the first time) : I'm too old for that carry-on I'm the wrong side of forty! Ya no estoy para
- 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
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