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The correct spelling of the number 40 is forty.

Some may believe that in UK English it is spelt "fourty", but this is not the case. The 'u' is always omitted. This is because in some accents, when the word originated, there was a difference in pronunciation between the word four and the word for.

On the other hand, 14 is spelled "fourteen", retaining the 'u'.

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