- 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
- Terms describing the pages comprising a magazines cover
The 4th cover page is on the back of the magazine, so naturally it costs more to place ads there Am I right in calling them thus, "2nd cover page" etc , or are there some special publishing terms for this?
- “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
- 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
- numbers - Framing a question to which you reply with I am the third . . .
List you and your siblings in order John is the first born; Jack is the second I am the third born in my family Of note, the tail "in my family" is mostly redundant More succinct responses are "I am the third born" or "I am third " In any case, the response seems to require a somewhat awkward question The odds of this answer being used in everyday conversation is pretty slim
- 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
- prepositions - How to use dates with from and to - English Language . . .
"X is a food trade show which took place from the 4th to the 7th November 2013" "the international congress was held from 22nd to 24th October 2015" What are the other alternatives? The different ways with which I can express the same concept but with different methods Like, dunno, is "from November 4 to November 7 2013" acceptable, FOR INSTANCE?
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