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.

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.

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...

2013年4月7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.

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.

2007年4月4日 · 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.

2006年1月21日 · 2040 = Twenty forty 2050 = Twenty fifty 2060 = Twenty sixty 2070 = Twenty seventy 2080 = Twenty eighty

2014年7月11日 · Hi guys, I'd like to know the correct and professional expression of "US$13508.20" on invoice. I myself wrote it "SAY TOTAL US DOLLAR THIRTEEN THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED AND EIGHT AND CENTS TWENTY ONLY". Is this O.K.? Since this is for business, I want it be formal and professional. Can any one...