- 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 –
- word usage - Using as ancient as VS as old as with a specific . . .
Which means you are seeking something other than the most direct wording As a plain sentence, "The artifacts 'date from' the 9th century " says what you mean To add prose details to the sentence, it could become, "These ancient artifacts have been dated back to the 9th century and the Viking invasions of Britain and Ireland " Also
- 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 is the difference between Seventh Heaven and Cloud Nine?
The principal difference is that they belong to quite different era and etymology 'Seventh heaven' is the most exalted level of heaven, esp the highest and most holy or blessed of the hierarchical series of heavens described in Jewish and Islamic theology According to the Talmudic Hagigah 12b, the place where God dwells over the angels, the souls of the righteous, and the souls of those yet
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