fourty

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Numeral

fourty

  1. Obsolete spelling of forty.
    • 1719—1762 (published 1908): George Waldo Browne (editor), Early Records of Londonderry, Windham, and Derry, N. H.
      [I]t is also voted and hereby to be understood that we have concluded to pay yearly or per annum one hundred and fourty pounds Salary []
  2. Misspelling of forty.
    • 2014 January, Claire Kramsch, “Language and Culture”, in AILA Review[1], volume 27, number 5, John Benjamins, →DOI, →ISSN, page 30:
      This paper surveys the research methods and approaches used in the multidisciplinary field of applied language studies or language education over the last fourty[sic] years. Drawing on insights gained in psycho- and sociolinguistics, educational linguistics and linguistic anthropology with regard to language and culture, it is organized around five major questions that concern language educators.