2011年3月26日 · 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".

2012年6月25日 · 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 students.

2007年12月1日 · 40: "forty" is the correct spelling. however,4- four , 14 - fourteen In my opinion, I find the Internet sometimes a bit "dangerous", people write and post opinions, even articles that contain all kinds of errors.

2015年4月12日 · 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...

2010年7月26日 · But , 140 in Spanish is ciento cuarenta, which is one hundred forty, as it is often written in AE, which differs from one hundred and forty in BE. I have heard several times, while in the USA, that within perhaps 30, or 40 years ,in the USA, Spanish speakers will, numerically, be in the majority. Is this really the case .? Saludos.

2005年10月2日 · O.E. feowertig, from feower "four" + tig "group of ten" (see - ty (1)). Roaring Forties are rough parts of the ocean between 40 and 50 degrees latitude.

2006年10月18日 · Hello, Previously I had the impression that a period of time is usually regarded as a singular or uncountable thing, so the verb followed is "-s" in most cases, eg. is/ has/ does/etc. But recently, I find a question posted on the net for language learners whose answer only allows...

2020年9月18日 · Forty minutes can be associated with the walk in several ways, one of which is to make "forty-minutes" into an adjective, another of which is to make the walk the "possession" of the forty minutes. Reactions: delacroix234

2021年6月11日 · It may be an AE/BE difference, but I see nothing unusual about “forty-four hundred.” (Wasn’t there a TV series by that name?) I think we sometimes use that phrasing for anything up to 100,000 10,000.

2009年6月22日 · As a non-farmer, I would use "the back forty" to refer to the remotest part of someone's land. My mother uses it humorously to refer to large backyards. In the context the original poster is interested in, it seems to refer to a plot of land that is south of the main house/property but still somewhat nearby and presumably owned by the same people.