Forty or Fourty - WordReference Forums
Dec 1, 2007 · 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".
one hundred forty. - WordReference Forums
Jul 26, 2010 · 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 …
forty-five hundred - WordReference Forums
Jun 25, 2012 · 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. …
seasoned hacking chestnut, the conqueror of forty [game: conkers ...
May 3, 2007 · hi again! I have really no idea about the red part, what is that hacking chestnut? that was mean of Wells to shoulder him into the square ditch because he would not swop his little snuffbox for …
Plough the lower forty - WordReference Forums
Apr 4, 2007 · 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 …
to the south forty - WordReference Forums
Jun 22, 2009 · "South forty" is an old term that refers figuratively to the lower portion of one's property. It's an old farming figure of speech the literal meaning of refers to the lower 40 acres of that property.
Fool of forty-five degrees - WordReference Forums
Apr 22, 2008 · "Well, you are a fool of forty-five degrees!", dice un padre ad un figlio che non ha sfruttato saggiamente a suo favore una situazione. Come lo tradurreste? Il testo è dell'Ottocento.
In a 40 - WordReference Forums
Apr 29, 2019 · 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 …
40-50% / 40%-50% [ writing percentage range ] - WordReference Forums
Jun 24, 2020 · forty to fifty per cent forty per cent to fifty per cent Now do we make our symbols follow that, repeating the sign if we repeat the word? We don't have to, and I would slightly prefer 40–50% …
hyphen in numbers [writing numbers] | WordReference Forums
Feb 4, 2022 · 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, …