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".

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, …

Mar 26, 2011 · Les dejo la explicación de wikipedia: Notwithstanding being related to the word "four" (4), 40 is spelled "forty", and not "fourty". The reason is that etymologically (also in …

Feb 27, 2018 · In writing it would have been forty eight hours' protection (note the apostrophe), which means "forty eight hours worth of protection".

Mar 11, 2018 · Is it correct to say: "Are you really going to pay one hundred pounds for those shoes?" When I was in a shop earlier I heard someone say "I'm not going to pay forty pound …

Jan 21, 2025 · Hello, I'd like to ask you about the correct punctuation when we arite a big number in words. e.g. 2,550,280 – two million, five hundred thousand and fifty, two hundred and eighty …

Jun 9, 2022 · It's normally Twenty oh one, twenty nineteen, nineteen forty-seven, ten sixty-six, nine fifty-seven. Two thousand and nineteen, nineteen hundred and forty-seven, one thousand …

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 …

Aug 7, 2010 · In Canada, "a forty" is a shortened form of the common expression "a forty-ouncer", which is a forty ounce bottle of any hard liquor. Many decades ago, Canada started using the …

Jul 18, 2007 · Americans may pronounce four-digit numbers with non-zero tens and ones as pairs of two-digit numbers without saying "hundred" and inserting "oh" for zero tens: "twenty-six fifty …