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?

Oct 25, 2018 · Therefore I suppose their original meaning were from " 7th month of a year" to " 10th month of a year". Apparently those words stand for " 9th month" to " 12th month" nowadays, so why …

Dec 9, 2010 · Straddling Thursday and Friday Straddling today and tomorrow but should they technically mean: straddling the 9th and the 10th of December? straddling Wednesday and Thursday? This is …

Feb 6, 2024 · E.g. if there are 10 items, 1 to 10, how can I call the 8th and 9th item? If I translate from my own language (Dutch), I get twice the same result: 8 Tweenalaatste Second-to-last 9

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

Aug 4, 2011 · Is it just because "ninth" has only one syllable? That wouldn't make sense, though, because saying "NINE-ith" wouldn't be worse than saying "NINE-e-tee". If we were used to "nineth", we would hav...

May 5, 2022 · It's interesting to note that "Xth century" is the most common way to refer to centuries, but nobody says "9th decade" or "199th" decade about the 1980s.

In my (AmE) experience, the phrase is ambiguous and can mean any of the first week containing a date in April, the first week in which more days are in April than aren't, or the first week entirely contained in …

Oct 20, 2019 · An avaricious person is very greedy for money or possessions. -Collins online My Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary (9th edition) describes it as... desire for wealth and the same dictionary …

Nov 15, 2023 · And now we do have a standard source weighing in only a handful of years later: On August 9th, 2009, the New York Times, in almost verbatim to Know Your Meme Episode, reported on …