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the 1st or 1st - English Language Usage Stack Exchange a) The United States ranked 1st in Bloomberg's Global Innovation Index b) The United States ranked the 1st in Bloomberg's Global Innovation Index I've seen a) in the news, however, it is like I've learned the definite article ('the') is required before an ordinal number (1st, 2nd, etc ) Thank you
abbreviations - When is it proper to abbreviate first to 1st? - English . . . Barring cases of extreme abbreviations (where one might use such abbreviations as "t ppl complaind abt t difficulty n reading c", such as some live internet chat room, or mediaeval manuscripts) then 1st must only be used when first is an actual ordinal; that is it could be replaced by "in position number one" and make the same sense, albeit clumsily:
What do we call the “rd” in “3ʳᵈ” and the “th” in “9ᵗʰ”? @WS2 In speech, very nearly always In writing, much less so I think what may be going on is that one just assumes that “June 1” is pronounced “June First”, or “4 July” as “the Fourth of July”
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 Here is a
Style clarification for date superscripts, th, st and nd I note that user @TrevorD wrote in a comment that it is conventional in Britain to use superscript, and as a fellow Briton, I agree that I prefer to use an an explicit superscript, and I'm under the impression that this is what I was taught at school (at a Southern English state school - i e non-fee-paying), which is strange because I can't find any style guides that recommend this style
Where do you put the suffix when listing the last name first? Use a comma before Jr and Sr , but treat II and III according to the person’s preference Within a sentence, always use a comma after Jr and Sr , but use a comma after II and III only if they are preceded by a comma
Difference between family name, name at birth and first names? First names includes those also called middle names - basically all names in order except for family name Also, some people actually go by their first middle name, so First Name isn't necessarily the given name