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- “20th century” vs. “20ᵗʰ century” - English Language Usage . . .
When writing twentieth century using an ordinal numeral, should the th part be in superscript? 20th century 20th century
- What do we call the “rd” in “3ʳᵈ” and the “th” in “9ᵗʰ”?
Our numbers have a specific two-letter combination that tells us how the number sounds For example 9th 3rd 301st What do we call these special sounds?
- What does turn of the century mean? - English Language Usage Stack . . .
Those of us born in the middle of the 20th century learned two phrases from our (predominently 20th century) parents These were: "The turn of the century" which was, roughly, the period ftom 1890 to 1910 and "The turn of the last century" which was, roughly, the period from 1790 to 1810
- nouns - use of capital C in the word Century - English Language . . .
From Sidney Greenbaum Janet Whitcut, Longman Guide to English Usage (1988): century | 1 The 1900s are the 20th century AD, of which the last year will be the year 2000 Similarly the period 1801 – 1900 inclusive was the 19th century, 1301 – 1400 was the 14th century, and so on
- The later part of the 20th century vs. the latter part of the 20th . . .
(From the 40s through the 80s, for example ) "Later" often implies that it started after the half, and lasted much closer to the end Rock and roll, jazz, and techno were music of the latter part of the 20th century Techno was music of the later part of 20th century The distinction is somewhat pedantic, even if useful
- Does nineteen-hundreds refer to 1900–1909 or 1900–1999?
The words "nineteen-hundreds" to me mean strictly 1900–1909 I've noticed several times that people, invariably North American, use these words to mean "the twentieth century", or 1900–1999, or som
- meaning - How should midnight on. . . be interpreted? - English . . .
From what I understand, the word "midnight" is usually interpreted incorrectly Midnight is written as "12am" which would imply that it's in the morning Therefore, it should be at the start of t
- punctuation - What is the abbreviation for century? - English . . .
I remember being taught in history classes to abbreviate century by writing a large capital C followed by the ordinal number as in: C18th without the full-stop (period) Recently I have noticed on
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