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- 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?
- 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?
- Meaning of by when used with dates - inclusive or exclusive
As others have specified, the word by is generally synonymous with no later than when referring to a date or time However, it is important to note (and this is why I am adding another answer) that if all you know is "The work must be completed by MM-DD-YYYY", then the exact due date is still ambiguous Without additional information, 'due by MM-DD-YYYY' has a fair chance of meaning: Due at or
- How did September shift from 7th month to 9th month of a year? (and . . .
Therefore I suppose their original meaning were from " 7th month of a year" to " 10th month of a year" Apparently those words stand for " 9th month" to " 12th month" nowadays, so why and how did this happen?
- What does “rising senior” mean and what countries use it?
In my experience, in addition to high school 11th and 12th graders being called juniors and seniors, high school 9th graders and 10th graders (14-16 years old) are also known as freshmen and sophomores
- “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
- What is the difference between Seventh Heaven and Cloud Nine?
Why is happiness referred to as "seventh heaven" or "cloud nine"? The ancient Jews believed that the highest heaven, or "heaven of heavens," the home of God and his chosen angels, was the " seventh heaven " The Muslims agreed that the seventh heaven was the pinnacle of ecstasy " Cloud nine " was coined by the American weather bureau and means "as high as clouds can get," or between thirty
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