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the 1st or 1st - English Language Usage Stack Exchange I'm wondering which is the right usage between "the 1st" and "1st" in these sentences: a) The United States ranked 1st in Bloomberg's Global Innovation Index b) The United States ranked the 1st
meaning - English Language Usage Stack Exchange In my (AmE) experience, the phrase is ambiguous and can mean any of the first week containing a date in April, the first week in which more days are in April than aren't, or the first week entirely contained in April, with the middle option being the most prevalent For example, if April 1 was a Friday or Saturday, in most circumstances, I would not expect the week of Mar 25 26-Apr 1 2 to be
Understanding as of, as at, and as from Joel is mistaken when he says that as of means "up to and including a point of time," although it is often used to mean so As of designates the point in time from which something occurs So as of some point would mean from the date specified onward However, his answering of the best way to say each phrase is spot on One may use either until or up to to mean the time before which something
1st hour, 2nd hour, 3rd hour. . . But how to say zero-th hour? Using the cipher (0) as an interval indicator is rare and confusing Hour 1 = t=0-1, hour 2 (the second hour) = t = 1-2 etc (ignoring the interval-boundary–naming problem), but hour 0 is poorly defined You're probably better thinking laterally, and using the column heading 'pref' or 'ung' say