Five minutes and this thread is gonna be locked. What a waste of internet ink. You know thay have to liquidize five whole whales for just one drop of the stuff? You're killing the earth man.
"Despite being related to the word "four" (4), 40 is spelled "forty", not "fourty". This is because etymologically (and still 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". "
Well Google solved that problem quickly...not sure why you need to ask this on the forums.
I'm Canadian and that's how I have always spelled it, so you must be right. Just like armour or colour. "
I never really liked the British and Canadian spelling of most words. I find it odd that Favorite is spelled Favourite. "
No one spells it "Fourty", not Canada, not the U.K, nobody. The correct English spelling everywhere is "Forty". "
"Canadians generally follow the British "our" spelling for words like labour and neighbour and harbour. But forty is forty everywhere. I've certainly seen it spelled "fourty" by many of my students here in British Columbia, but it's as wrong in Canada as it is in the US, Australia, and everywhere else.
Logically, "fourty" makes sense: four, fourteen, fourty. But English and logic don't always agree, and this is one of those cases."
Forty is the correct spelling according to the Oxford English Dictionary. And it makes sense. A lot of the multiples of 10 are different to their singular counterparts e.g. 50 is fifty, not fivety. Similarly 40 is forty not fourty.
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