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I am a good speller but I just have a mind block about the word.


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"You're not alone..LOL"

Hightest Level: 5 by HELENofTROY on Oct 14 2007 (25 months ago)
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I actually had to make a note in my check book...to write out Forty Dollars and not fourty...

 

To make life even more confusing...then you'd think 90 would be ninty...but no, it' Ninety Dollars.

 

How ever do foreigners ever learn correct English when we, Americans have trouble with it <:O)

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"It's forty. Never fourty."

Hightest Level: 6 by Maggie_is_dancing on Oct 14 2007 (25 months ago)
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Take the word of an English teacher.

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"Me too...... used to have a mind block on this word"

Hightest Level: 2 by GrammyJ on Oct 14 2007 (25 months ago)
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But it's  FORTY!   I'm pretty sure.  FOURTY just doesn't  look right .
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"Look it up. You'll remember it longer."

Hightest Level: 1 by Seti1 on Oct 14 2007 (25 months ago)
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"It's forty"

Hightest Level: 1 by 0x90 on Oct 14 2007 (25 months ago)
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