forty vs fourty
forty
Definitions
noun
- the cardinal number that is the product of ten and four
adjective
- being ten more than thirty
Examples
_Catty. _ (_speaking very rapidly_) Bless you for that word, counshillor; and by the first light to-morrow, I'll drive all the grazing cattle, every four-footed _baast_ off the land, and pound 'em in Ballynavogue; and if they replevy, why I'll distrain again, if it be forty times, I will go.
This was the first bloodless revolution the city, which has been burned down forty times in its history.
We catered for forty but only twenty came.
