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etymology - What comes after (Primary,unary), (secondary,binary . . . 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 adjectives, "one each, two each, etc "; they are always used in
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
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 1 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"
grammar - English Language Usage Stack Exchange I was discussing this at work with a colleague today, which form (or both) is grammatically correct when referring to dates? quot;on the 5th of November quot; vs quot;on the 5th November quot;