the 1st or 1st - English Language Usage Stack Exchange I'm wondering which is the right usage between "the 1st" and "1st" in these sentences: a) The United States ranked 1st in Bloomberg's Global Innovation Index b) The United States ranked the 1st
1st hour, 2nd hour, 3rd hour. . . But how to say zero-th hour? Using the cipher (0) as an interval indicator is rare and confusing Hour 1 = t=0-1, hour 2 (the second hour) = t = 1-2 etc (ignoring the interval-boundary–naming problem), but hour 0 is poorly defined You're probably better thinking laterally, and using the column heading 'pref' or 'ung' say
phrase requests - English Language Usage Stack Exchange There are multiple ways to express this in competitions: Winner, 1st runner-up, 2nd runner-up, etc 1st place, 2nd place, 3rd place, 1st prize, 2nd prize, etc In your example it may help to say how many were competing, because if you came in 3rd place out of three, that is quite different that third place out of 100, or however many
grammatical number - English Language Usage Stack Exchange My answer focuses on the header question about decades—which is the question that most readers will probably expect to find answers to here With regard to decades expressed in numerals rather than spelled out in letters, some style guides recommend omitting an apostrophe, while others recommend including it For example, from The Chicago Manual of Style, fifteenth edition (2003): 9 37