- What do we call the “rd” in “3ʳᵈ” and the “th” in “9ᵗʰ”?
In the case of 9th, the superscript shown is indeed called the 'ordinal indicator' as Matt Gutting has noted in his answer The addition of -th -eth relates to numbers 4 to 20 (and similarly,) and is a suffix to the cardinal number
- word choice - What is the name of the symbols - and gt;?
22 They can also be called chevrons, or angle brackets While these terms can be interchangeable in a layman's context, and would not look so different when written by hand, there are 4 different symbols in the Unicode standard, and they have different usages In mathematics, "greater than" and "lesser than" would be the correct precise terms
- What term is used for the closing of a letter?
Salutation is the term used to describe the beginning of a letter or other correspondence What is the term used for the closing of a letter? Here are some examples: Yours truly, Sincerely, Best wi
- Named vs called - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Over on Stackoverflow, I keep seeing questions wherein posters say: *I have an item named SoAndSo (a table, a file, etc ) Shouldn't it be: *I have an item called SoAndSo Is "named" an accepta
- Why is Greece not called in English by the name Hellas?
Aristotle was the first to use the name Graeci (Γραικοί) in Meteorology, saying that the area about Dodona and Achelous was inhabited by the Selli and a people formerly called Graeci, but at his time Hellenes From this statement of Aristotle it is asserted that the name of Graeci was at one period widely spread in Epirus and the western coast of Greece in general, hence it became the
- What do you call words such as “the, an, a, to, and”?
Welcome to EL U I think most of the contributors here would take issue with the notion that words like the or and "serve little purpose"; an evening with the Queen would probably be rather different from one with Queen — or with a queen for that matter Are you simply referring to very common words, for example, to ignore when indexing text?
- What do you call the male equivalent to Cougar (woman)?
What is the male equivalent to the term "cougar"? Clarifying The term "cougar" describes an older woman seeking younger men So a male equivalent would be an older man seek
- questions - What is it called? VS What is it spelled? - English . . .
Is it because, in 'what is it called?', we are asking about the name of the object, and not necessarily the way to call it? I think if I write this, that will confuse my readers even more because they can also think that the name of the object is also the way we call it
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