Los Angeles Times: What’s your ultimate birthday cake? We really want to know.
This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Birthday cake is life’s most important — and most fun — cake. It might be the only cake some eat all year, or the ...
A very happy 40th birthday to the Duchess of Sussex, who celebrated her special day on Wednesday 4 August. Of course, no birthday is complete without a cake, and the wife of Prince Harry was treated ...
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 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".
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 conjunction " and " grammatically correct, and is this due to the Spanish influence " ciento cuarenta "...
This is from Mutiny On The Bounty by John Boyne. A boy was caught for stealing and brought before judge. Forty or forty-five years old shouldn't be considered to be very old, why the word 'ancient' is used? Context: ‘Make quiet that boy!’ roared the magistrate on the bench and who was it...
You might use it if you were talking about items normally counted in hundreds. I could just about imagine "forty-four hundred cigarettes" or "forty-four hundred Roman legionaries", but not much else.