Why doesnt ninth have an e, like ninety? Is it just because "ninth" has only one syllable? That wouldn't make sense, though, because saying "NINE-ith" wouldn't be worse than saying "NINE-e-tee" If we were used to "nineth", we would hav
meaning - How should midnight on. . . be interpreted? - English . . . Straddling Thursday and Friday Straddling today and tomorrow but should they technically mean: straddling the 9th and the 10th of December? straddling Wednesday and Thursday? This is much less clear Technically is there a midnight "tonight", or is midnight "tomorrow morning"? What do you think? How should "midnight" be interpreted?
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? Is there a good
range inclusion - English Language Usage Stack Exchange 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)" Also phrasing it as a range from one date to another sounds odd to me when you're talking about only two days in total Option 2