Ever wondered why ....

[Drew]

The word 'four' has a 'u' in it but 'forty' doesn't?

Maybe someone can explain. Silvia? (from English lessons)

 

[KarlosHx]

The word 'four' has a 'u' in it but 'forty' doesn't?

Maybe someone can explain. Silvia? (from English lessons)

I often lay awake at night pondering over that same question

 

[Morbyd]

Maybe it was a transatlantic compromise.

After all, they still don't spell "color" right in the UK

 

[Beckiboo]

Nope, can't say I've ever wondered that...

 

[Leese]

Very random Drew You're still not drinking every night then

 

[Drew]

You're still not drinking every night then

Oh yeah, but not enough for the hangover club.

 

[SuperD]

Probably for the same reason that 20 is not twoty

 

[MARKB]

Or thirty is not threety

 

[KarlosHx]

Or sixty is not sixty

 

[MARKB]

but sixty is still, er, sixty.

I agree, where's the bloody consistency!!

 

[silvia]

The word 'four' has a 'u' in it but 'forty' doesn't?

Maybe someone can explain. Silvia? (from English lessons)

Sorry, no etimology lessons, only grammar, ortography and few lessons on literature

 

[KarlosHx]

but sixty is still, er, sixty.

I agree, where's the bloody consistency!!

Damn English language!

 

[SuperD]

English is consistently inconsistent - glad I didn't have to learn it as a second language!

 

[Drew]

English is consistently inconsistent - glad I didn't have to learn it as a second language!

Same here, especially that dreaded text speak.

 

[silvia]

English is consistently inconsistent - glad I didn't have to learn it as a second language!

In spanish or catalan I have a 150 pages book only about verbs, adjectives, articles, possessives and all that have genre and single/plural option. There's hundreds of exceptions in verbs, adverbs, pronoms.

Basic English sounds easy compared to romanic languages, and people find hard to understand that it's so simple.

 

[MidlifeRaver]

Its from Anglo Saxon...apparently fourty was already used when they were sitting around deciding what to call numbers...

Fourty means a small fortified encampment...as in 'quick lets get to the fourty those bloody Romans are coming'...

 

[Buckley]

Nope..but I do wonder why we have to break down with tears in our eyes...

 

[x-amount]

Why do birds suddenly appear, every time you are near?

 

[Drew]

What's at the end of all that blackness out there?




....... look what i went and started

 

[vdubjb]

I hope that wasnt the hilight of your St patty's day.