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 Ngram Viewer there are some occurrences of preantepenultimate in the corpus. As for dialect, you will rarely see the Latin forms other than ultimate except in discussion of the language Latin or ...
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 terms for this?
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 am the third born" or "I am third." In any case, the response seems to require a somewhat awkward question. The odds of this answer being used in everyday conversation is pretty slim.
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.
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". Similarly, say a company owned two bookstores, and in the ...
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 approp...
"X is a food trade show which took place from the 4th to the 7th November 2013" "the international congress was held from 22nd to 24th October 2015" What are the other alternatives? The different ways with which I can express the same concept but with different methods. Like, dunno, is "from November 4 to November 7 2013" acceptable, FOR INSTANCE?
One can use the terms primary, secondary, and tertiary to describe the first, second, and third levels of something. What would the fourth level be called? Would it be something like "quartiary" or "
