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  1. adiwan adiwan

    I could swear on my life 40 was spelled fourty and not forty. I have known English for the majority of my life and for some reason I Mandela-effected myself into believing that it was written with a *u*. It made more sense because of the *u* in fo*u*r. Without the *u* it looks like an adjective to the word "fort", like "Your forty house is well-secured against a horde of zombies."

    about a day ago from web
    1. awlxaĺan awlxaĺan

      @adiwan oh yes a familiar mistake. I think it took me near a decade in America to stop spelling fourty…

      about 17 hours ago from web
      1. Someone Probably Someone Probably

        @awl The way we spell "forty" is stupid. Like it's "Four" and "Fourteen" so it really should be "fourteen"

        about 7 hours ago from web
        1. Scribus Scribus

          @elli It's really so common and obvious that we could probably stand to officially change it, I mean it's not like Webster's is making the rules, nothing but convention and mental inertia behind it

          about 6 hours ago from web