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- 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?
- Usage of second third fourth . . . last
The 4th is next to last or last but one (penultimate) The 3rd is second from (or to) last or last but two (antepenultimate) The 2nd, is third from (or to) last or last but three According to Google Ngram Viewer there are some occurrences of preantepenultimate in the corpus As for dialect, you will rarely see the Latin forms other than ultimate except in discussion of the language Latin or
- “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
- How to refer to a specific floor of a building
1 Capitalisation implies that the name has been elevated to have meaning in its own right, not just as a literal description For example, if the mezzanine between the 1st and what was the 2nd floor was converted to be the 2nd floor, what had been the 4th floor would become the 5th floor but might be referred to as "the 4th Floor"
- abbreviations - When were st, nd, rd, and th, first used - English . . .
In English, Wikipedia says these started out as superscripts: 1 st, 2 nd, 3 rd, 4 th, but during the 20 th century they migrated to the baseline: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th So the practice started during the Roman empire, and probably was continuously used since then in the Romance languages I don't know when it was adopted in English
- Is there a word that means every four weeks?
Is there a fourth word in this series: weekly, biweekly, triweekly, ? If not, and I had to coin a word, then would "quadweekly", "quadriweekly", or some other word be more etymologically approp
- Whats the equivalent phrase in the UK for I plead the fifth?
I don't think the question is looking for subjective opinions on the right to silence, but for the equivalent phrase used by a witness in a British court when an American might say something like what KitFox said
- meaning in context - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
While looking over a company's annual report, I realized that every business quarter was denoted using roman numerals E g QI,2014 QII, 2014 etc I am sure I am being petty and pedantic, h
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