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Historically, it was spelt as "fourty". However, modern spelling conventions prefer that you spell it without the u. When someone says that fourty with a u is wrong, they know nothing about the history of their own language.
Forty or Fourty?
Susan asks: We are having a great discussion at work as to the correct Canadian spelling of the word forty. My colleague and I remember learning to spell it 'fourty' - about 40 years ago at school in Toronto! Other officemates as old or older than us have always spelled it 'forty' (schooled in Mo...
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