twenty fourth vs twenty forth

The ordinal number for the number 24 is "twenty-fourth," with a hyphen between the words "twenty" and "fourth." "Twenty forth" is incorrect and isn't used in English.

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This phrase is correct. When expressing the ordinal number for 24, it should be written as "twenty-fourth."

"twenty fourth"

Use "twenty fourth" when you want to refer to the ordinal number for 24. Remember to include a hyphen between "twenty" and "fourth."

Examples:

She came in twenty fourth in the race.
He was the twenty fourth person to arrive at the party.

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Well, I'm pretty sure I said the twenty-fourth.
On 16 January 2001 the Commission submitted a proposal for a Directive amending for the twenty-fourth time Directive 76/769/EEC relating to restrictions on the marketing and use of certain dangerous substances.
Done at Denpasar, Bali, this twenty-fourth day of February in the year one thousand nine hundred and seventy-six.
The twenty-fourth day of June is the Feast of St John the Baptist.
In Lithuania, last year, every eleventh young person was unemployed compared to every twenty-fourth in 2008.
The text of this Agreement was originally formulated at Rome on the twenty-fourth day of September one thousand nine hundred and forty-nine in the French language.
This is the twenty-fourth application to be examined under the budget 2010 and refers to the mobilisation of a global amount of EUR 8.308.555 from the EGF for Germany.
-30 % of the basic salary from the nineteenth to the twenty-fourth month.
Done at New Jersey on the twenty-fourth day of June in the year two thousand and thirteen, in two originals.
Done in duplicate at Brussels, on the twenty-fourth day of November in the year two thousand and five, in the English and French languages, each version being equally authentic. For the European Union For Canada
having regard to the United Nations Twenty-fourth report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo of 14 November 2007,
having regard to the United Nations Twenty-fourth report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo of 14 November 2007,
TWENTY-FOURTH COMMISSION DIRECTIVE 2000/6/EC of 29 February 2000 adapting to technical progress Annexes II, III, VI and VII to Council Directive 76/768/EEC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to cosmetic products
Even if it takes twenty years before the fourth directive is followed by a fifth one, we will get there in the end. I have confidence in this.
It's the largest of any fourth-year, and it's the only one on the twenty-eighth floor.
An agreement which has been described by the Commission - correctly I believe - as an agreement for the twenty-first century, a fourth generation plus agreement.
The results of this and other related research were discussed in November 2006 at the Fourth ECB Central Banking Conference, which was devoted to «The role of money: money and monetary policy in the twenty-first century».
Fourth ECB Central Banking Conference - «The role of money: money and monetary policy in the twenty-first century» - held in Frankfurt in November 2006
having regard to the United Nations Twenty-fourth report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo of 14 November 2007,

This phrase is incorrect. The correct ordinal number for 24 is "twenty-fourth," not "twenty forth."

"twenty forth"

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and call thee back with twenty hundred thousand times more joy... than thou went'st forth in lamentation.
Paul Wolfowitz admits that the crusade to eliminate weapons of mass destruction in Iraq was merely 'a bureaucratic pretext to gain acceptance for the war'.This tremendous deception has called forth no indignation among the Fifteen, let alone among the Twenty-five.
How can we fail to recognise that in the twenty-first century, once the concept of dignity has been set forth, the key thing is the indivisibility of the whole package of rights?

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