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.
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...
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 metric system for everything, so the labels on these bottles no longer say that they contain forty ounces of liquor. In spite of this, the nickname persists.