- 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”
- Ordinal 3: 3rd vs 3d - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
It's normal to represent third as 3rd, not "3d" The latter might be used if a foreign language were being translated by someone who is used to using only a single character to represent an ordinal (for example, in Italian) This is supported by a Google Ngram comparing 3rd to 3d The former occurs more often, even though "3d" could have a
- numbers - First, Second, Third, Fourth or 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th? One, Two . . .
When we use words like first, second, third, fourth or 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, in sentences, what will be the best way to write these? Also, what about numbers? Do we put them as numbers or numerals? Here are some sample sentences, He got first 1st class in that examination He gave me two 2 books He will be the first 1st to get there
- 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 Here is a
- Usage of second third fourth . . . last
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
- 英语日期rd、th有什么区别，怎么运用？ - 百度知道
2、rd在日期中只用于3号和23号，3号表达为3rd，23号表示为 23rd。 3、th用于4号~20号以及24号~30号 如4号表示为 4th 第一，英文为first，故写为1st；第二，英文为second，缩写为2nd；第三，英文为third，缩写为3rd。
- etymology - What comes after (Primary,unary),(secondary,binary . . .
3rd = tertiary; 4th = quaternary; 5th = quinary; 6th = senary; 7th = septenary; 8th = octonary; 9th = nonary; 10th = denary; 12th = duodenary; 20th = vigenary These come from the Latin roots The -n-ones come as well from Latin but this time are distributive adjectives, "one each, two each, etc "; they are always used in plural They were
- What can I call 2nd and 3rd place finishes in a competition?
"Place getter" means achieving first, second or third place, though that is a relatively informal term Depending on the context, it might be better to use the verb "placed"; someth
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