Forty Character Numberblocks Wiki Fandom Powered By Wikia The forty eleven or fifty eleven term has been around for quite a while. i always thought of it as a black or southern usage, but recently learned it can be heard in other parts of the country as well and there are print references going back to 1899. who knew?. I've never heard stones either. in europe we use kilogrammes. in the usa they use pounds which makes it difficult as us brits have to divide the figure by 14 to make it reasonable. in britain one would normally say something like 'ten stone seven' i.e. ten stone and seven pounds, rather than a hundred and forty seven pounds. to my mind the imperial system of weights and measures is stupid in.
Forty Character Numberblocks Wiki Fandom Powered By W Vrogue Co 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 640 acres, a quarter section was 160 acres, and the quarter section was itself subdivided into four quarter quarter sections of 40 acres each: two front forty. 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 ". 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, and ninety aren't? but the numbers that are between them are written with a hyphen. you. 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. 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.
Forty Numberblocks Wiki Fandom 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, and ninety aren't? but the numbers that are between them are written with a hyphen. you. 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. 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. 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 fact googling lower forty turns up mostly references to lower forty eight! i am still not sure our to translate it in french though. "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. A forty minutes' ride or a forty minute ride? it is because it's a fixed expression (seven years' war was in the 18th century, while six day war in the 200th century, hence, a more ''modern'' name (six day instead of six days')? it does seem a bit strange, doesn't it? what we've got in such phrases is an implication of personification. I am editing a piece in which the character uses the word "twoish" to reference an approximation of time. "it's five thirty now. how does twoish sound?" would you, for clarity, toss a hyphen in "two ish" to add clarity? or is the unhyphenated version "twoish" clear enough? thank you for any.
Forty Five Fanmade Gallery Numberblocks Wiki Fandom 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 fact googling lower forty turns up mostly references to lower forty eight! i am still not sure our to translate it in french though. "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. A forty minutes' ride or a forty minute ride? it is because it's a fixed expression (seven years' war was in the 18th century, while six day war in the 200th century, hence, a more ''modern'' name (six day instead of six days')? it does seem a bit strange, doesn't it? what we've got in such phrases is an implication of personification. I am editing a piece in which the character uses the word "twoish" to reference an approximation of time. "it's five thirty now. how does twoish sound?" would you, for clarity, toss a hyphen in "two ish" to add clarity? or is the unhyphenated version "twoish" clear enough? thank you for any.
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