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- What do we call the “rd” in “3ʳᵈ” and the “th” in “9ᵗʰ”?
@WS2 In speech, very nearly always In writing, much less so I think what may be going on is that one just assumes that “June 1” is pronounced “June First”, or “4 July” as “the Fourth of July”
- meaning - How should midnight on. . . be interpreted? - English . . .
By most definitions, the date changes at midnight That is, at the precise stroke of 12:00:00 That time, along with 12:00:00 noon, are technically neither AM or PM because AM and PM mean "ante-meridiem" and "post-meridiem", and noon and midnight are neither ante- nor post- meridiem
- which one is correct I will be on leave starting on October 4th till . . .
In my opinion "starting on" and "till" don't really go together so I wouldn't use option 1 The phrasing "on leave from X till Y" can be misinterpreted to mean that Y will be your first day back at work, so I wouldn't use option 3 without adding "(inclusive)"
- What to call Primary School + High School, but not College
The answers and comments to this question have already demonstrated that it varies across the country I would have answered that the terms "Primary School" and "Grade School" both refer to elementary, middle, and high school collectively
- prepositions - Does until [date] mean before that date? - English . . .
This is not good English Either it was written by somebody for whom English is not a native language, in which case I wouldn't necessarily conclude anything about his interpretation from the text, or it was written in a hurry by someone who meant to put (you have until 18 August) in parentheses, in which you should deliver it by 23:59 on 18 August
- When back, if I say Out of office until Thursday
I am always confused when I get an email stating "out of office until Thursday" Is the sender back on Thursday or still out of office (o o o ) on Thursday and only back on Friday?
- etymology - Origin of the phrases “third time’s the charm” and “third . . .
I think the origin of these phrases is from Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor, 1602: As for which came first, lucky or charm, I found the charm variation earlier and not of American origin as The Phrase Finder has, but British
- Renumeration vs Remuneration (reimbursed financially), which is correct?
For my entire life, I thought the correct word was Renumeration But after reading a document that used Remuneration I checked google and apparently I was wrong The oxford dictionary has a link to
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