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- forty-five hundred - WordReference Forums
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
- forty (not fourty?) - WordReference Forums
SAludos, soy nuevo en este foro y también un nuevo estudiante de ingles Mi duda es sobre la palabra forty (40) Por que cambia la forma como se escribe si el numero viene de four (4) Lei en wikipedia que tiene que ver con algo etimologico pero la verdad la explicación era en ingles y no entendi Les dejo la explicación de wikipedia:
- Forty four hundred - WordReference Forums
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
- to the south forty - WordReference Forums
As a non-farmer, I would use "the back forty" to refer to the remotest part of someone's land My mother uses it humorously to refer to large backyards In the context the original poster is interested in, it seems to refer to a plot of land that is south of the main house property but still somewhat nearby and presumably owned by the same people
- one hundred forty. - WordReference Forums
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
- 40 year 40 years old - WordReference Forums
The forty minutes' ride sounds like there would be some kind of ride and that's its official name Otherwise the expressions with apostrophe tend to sound old to me I avoid the structure whenever possible The hyphen makes the phrase into an adjective, and with adjectives there are never s endings The ready-made sweeper The night-long drive
- four fourteen forty - WordReference Forums
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
- forty-one forty one - WordReference Forums
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
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