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- 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”
- Why doesnt ninth have an e, like ninety?
For instance in "The coronation of Edgar [the peaceful]" (a poem from the Anglo Saxon chronicles, composed at the end of the 9th century) one can read: OE: Ond him Eadmundes eafora hæfde nigon ond XX PDE: And Edmund's offspring had 9 and 20 [years] Derived from nigon, you would find typically nigonhund ==> nine hundred : nigontig ==> ninety
- Meaning of by when used with dates - inclusive or exclusive
If, in a contract fr example, the text reads: "X has to finish the work by MM-DD-YYYY", does the "by" include the date or exclude it? In other words, will the work delivered on the specified date
- How did September shift from 7th month to 9th month of a year? (and . . .
According to the OED, the switch from month number 7 to 9 was made well before English was even a language: The ancient Roman calendar (dating from around the mid 8th cent b c ) had ten months; c713 b c January and February were added to the end
- What does “rising senior” mean and what countries use it?
In my experience, in addition to high school 11th and 12th graders being called juniors and seniors, high school 9th graders and 10th graders (14-16 years old) are also known as freshmen and sophomores –
- “20th century” vs. “20ᵗʰ century” - English Language Usage . . .
To some extent, it depends on the font you are using and how accessible its special features are If you can do full typesetting, then you probably want to make the th part look different from the 20 part, just like they do here:
- meaning - How should midnight on. . . be interpreted? - English . . .
By most definitions, the date changes at midnight That is, at the precise stroke of 12:00:00 That time, along with 12:00:00 noon, are technically neither AM or PM because AM and PM mean "ante-meridiem" and "post-meridiem", and noon and midnight are neither ante- nor post- meridiem
- What to call Primary School + High School, but not College
The answers and comments to this question have already demonstrated that it varies across the country I would have answered that the terms "Primary School" and "Grade School" both refer to elementary, middle, and high school collectively
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