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 …

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 …

May 19, 2016 · I like to say -1 as negative one. So, should I say "negative oneth index" or "negative first index"? Which one is grammatical?

Aug 23, 2014 · @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 …

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 …

Apr 17, 2016 · I note that user @TrevorD wrote in a comment that it is conventional in Britain to use superscript, and as a fellow Briton, I agree that I prefer to use an an explicit superscript, …

Jul 17, 2014 · Technically, the f in this context would not be capitalized. The same situation occurs when the floors of a building or vessel have non numerical designations, like the 'noble floor' …

Is it grammatically correct to sequence paragraphs using First, Second, Third, and Finally? If not, is there a good word that replaces Finally? Starting a paragraph with Final doesn't sound corre...

Apr 10, 2015 · The American convention is that the floor inside a building which is on the ground, is called the first floor and the floor above that is called the second floor and so forth.

-1: I don't believe "These changes will be effective on Jan 1st 2013" would normally be understood to mean they only apply on that day. If that was the intended meaning you would need to …