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- Apartment number before or after house number and street
When writing an address, I wonder which comes first, the apartment number, or the house number and street name? Thanks! For example: 1234 Charles ST APT A Hollywood, CA 54321 or APT A, 1234 Charles ST Hollywood, CA 54321
- Abbreviation of Street - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
The "t" in "st" should be taken as the first "t" of "street " Consider that abbreviations of common nouns (especially in the domain of roadways) beginning with a consonant-vowel pair usually take the first consonant and the last consonant (or strategic consonants which appear throughout), as evinced by: road --> rd; lane --> ln; point --> pt
- Capitalization with names of two streets - English Language Usage . . .
The first version uses the full name of each street, while the second is the equivalent of just using "first names " Both would be understood Note that I am assuming these are streets in New York It's possible that you are talking about a different city where there actually is a First Street (and a Main Street) If that's so, then replace
- First floor vs ground floor, usage origin - English Language Usage . . .
Yes, but from a more basic perspective, what we in Europe call ground floor, basically the floor at ground street level, is what Americans would naturally call first floor There are many exceptions and complications with big buildings but still the distintcion remains, and it is something typical of the U S
- Is it better to say someone lived at or on a particular street?
Sully Road was a bit too far, so now we live at Nutley Street with the understanding that the speaker is referring to areas accessed from the Sully Road and Nutley Street exits from I-66 Otherwise, as you note, I would expect to hear that someone lives on a street in the U S , or in a street in Britain, but at a specific address in either
- grammar - In Vs On Vs At (when talking about streets) - English . . .
In British English, the name of the street without any further precision is preceded by in when you’re talking about where someone lives: he lives in Oxford Street The precise address is preceded by at: he lives at 128 Oxford Street On may occasionally be found to say where a building is located: Ikea have a big new store on Oxford Street
- articles - Using the before ordinal numbers - English Language . . .
"April first" is fine in (spoken) American English, but is uncommon in British English, where is would either be "the first of April" or "April the first" Incidentally, the different word order here may reflect the fact that Americans tend to write dates with the month first, so for example, 1 31 or Jan 31, compared to British 31 1 or 31 Jan
- What do we call the “rd” in “3ʳᵈ” and the “th” in “9ᵗʰ”?
First, these abbreviations are not onomatopoeia In fact, your question is about writing rather than sounds In the written number 2 nd, the letters nd are the superscript More generally, these letters form the ordinal indicator in english
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