"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message
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If there had been 40 knots of wind it would have been issued as "four
zero",
not "forty".

It *should* have been issued as "four zero".

I've heard plenty of non-standard phraseology from ATC.

The wind speed makes a lot more difference to the guy in the plane than it
does to the guy in the tower. I would have asked.