Another Thing That Annoys Me
The spelling of 40. We have four and fourteen, and then, for
no reason I know of, the u is dropped and we're left with forty,
not to mention the schizophrenic forty-four. Most annoying, as
Sei Shōnagon would say.
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Ron Padgett
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2022
photograph ~ Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times
