- 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"
- 40 year 40 years old - WordReference Forums
The "40 year old" on the tee shirt is short for "a 40 year old person" When it's an adjective numbers never take a plural a two hour limit a twenty five cent coin two twenty-five year old women The nouns are limit, coin, and women which can be singular or plural So you only put an s when it´s not and adjective and modifies no noun He´s 40 years old or He's 40 I have four hours to see the
- How to describe height? - WordReference Forums
one point fourty metres or one point fourty metres or one fourty Which one is natural? Which one is always sald by local speakers Thank you! Click to expand 'Tall' cannot be a noun so we describe someone's height Different countries use different systems In the English-speaking world both metric and imperial measures exist
- 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
- 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:)
- Writing numbers (1, 2) or spelling them out (one, two)
I always reached home at one or two in the morning Is it OK if I change one or two to 1 or 2?
- forty (not fourty?) | WordReference Forums
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"
- 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
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