It dropped out so the scribes could save ink and time.
Forty-one Forty-two Forty-three Forty-four Forty-five Note: 4 = Four 14 = Fourteen 40 = Forty as in letter u is omitted in 40
Forty Years' War happened in 1385.
Forty. (Note: there is no "u" in forty.)
There is no U, forty.
There are forty words that start with the letter Q and are not followed by a U. These words do not come from the English language. A couple examples are qat and qere.
The U was lost long ago in the English form, as was the O in twenty and the E's in thirty. Only sixty, seventy, eighty, and ninety retain the unit name in their tens values.
What is five sevenths of of forty nine
Three hundred forty five. (Note that there is no "u" in "forty.")
Seven hundred and forty-nine.
a word with 40 letters. :)
According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 1 words with the pattern -U-U-UJU. That is, eight letter words with 2nd letter U and 4th letter U and 6th letter U and 7th letter J and 8th letter U. In alphabetical order, they are: sucuruju
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