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 …

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 …

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.

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 "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 …

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"2 1st floor" I also found this entry on Wikipedia which suggests that the words "lot" and "unit" can be used before the apartment number in Malaysia. (My question is more about American …

E.g. in School we have 5-7 or 8 hours every day (Math, History, Biology, Chemistry, English etc.). The first hour starts at 8:00 A.M.

Aug 28, 2014 · 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 …