Aug 23, 2014 · 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?

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 …

The 4th cover page is on the back of the magazine, so naturally it costs more to place ads there. Am I right in calling them thus, "2nd cover page" etc., or are there some special publishing …

When writing twentieth century using an ordinal numeral, should the th part be in superscript? 20th century 20th century

List you and your siblings in order. John is the first born; Jack is the second. I am the third born in my family. Of note, the tail "in my family" is mostly redundant. More succinct responses are "I …

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 …

I would agree that the first 4 are all valid. There is, however, a difference between "effective from" and "effective on" ( and the take effect equivalents ). If a change is effective "on" a date, a …

Is there a fourth word in this series: weekly, biweekly, triweekly, ...? If not, and I had to coin a word, then would "quadweekly", "quadriweekly", or some other word be more etymologically …

Sep 30, 2018 · Exactly what I was thinking. Idiomatically, you say "it falls on the 4th this year" when an event's date is variable. However, physical occurrences such as the solstice seem to …

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 …