- 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?
- 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)" 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
- How to refer to a specific floor of a building
Capitalisation implies that the name has been elevated to have meaning in its own right, not just as a literal description For example, if the mezzanine between the 1st and what was the 2nd floor was converted to be the 2nd floor, what had been the 4th floor would become the 5th floor but might be referred to as "the 4th Floor" Similarly, say a company owned two bookstores, and in the
- 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
- meaning - How should midnight on. . . be interpreted? - English . . .
From what I understand, the word "midnight" is usually interpreted incorrectly Midnight is written as "12am" which would imply that it's in the morning Therefore, it should be at the start of t
- What would be the British Equivalent Words to Freshmen Sophomore
Freshmen - 1st year college university student Sophomore - 2nd year Junior - 3rd year Senior - 4th year However, since the British universities usually have three years in total, are there any equivalent words to these American expressions? Or Does British people just say "I'm a third-year" instead of "I'm a junior"?
- 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
- etymology - What comes after (Primary,unary), (secondary,binary . . .
Here is something I was able to discover on the internet the prime time I confronted the same predicament as you 1st = primary 2nd = secondary 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
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