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the 1st or 1st - English Language Usage Stack Exchange a) The United States ranked 1st in Bloomberg's Global Innovation Index b) The United States ranked the 1st in Bloomberg's Global Innovation Index I've seen a) in the news, however, it is like I've learned the definite article ('the') is required before an ordinal number (1st, 2nd, etc ) Thank you
abbreviations - When is it proper to abbreviate first to 1st? - English . . . Barring cases of extreme abbreviations (where one might use such abbreviations as "t ppl complaind abt t difficulty n reading c", such as some live internet chat room, or mediaeval manuscripts) then 1st must only be used when first is an actual ordinal; that is it could be replaced by "in position number one" and make the same sense, albeit clumsily:
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”
meaning - English Language Usage Stack Exchange The "first week of April" is the first week that contains any date in April For example, in the image below the "first week of April" is the week containing the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th of April It could also mean the first seven days of April -- April 1st through April 7th
abbreviations - When were st, nd, rd, and th, first used - English . . . 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 Here is a
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