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1st hour, 2nd hour, 3rd hour… But how to say “zero”-th hour?
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.
But every Thursday we have an hour that stars at 7:10 A.M.
In ...
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Is “-th” still a productive suffix in English?
The main question here is whether using -(e)th to create ordinals out of cardinals1 is still considered a productive suffix in English. Is it?
If so, then does it matter whether we are in a formal ...
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How would you phrase questions that require an “interrogative ordinal” which is absent in English? [duplicate]
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How should I phrase a question that must be answered with an ordinal number (e.g., the third prime)?
How to phrase an asking sentence that must be answered with an ordinal number?
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“20th century” vs. “20ᵗʰ century” [closed]
When writing twentieth century using an ordinal numeral, should the th part be in superscript?
20th century
20th century
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What is the question for which the answer is “This is my third coffee today”? [duplicate]
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How should I phrase a question that must be answered with an ordinal number (e.g., the third prime)?
Framing a question to which the answer is an ordinal number
How manyth son ...
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Interrogative form of a sentence [duplicate]
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How should I phrase a question that must be answered with an ordinal number (e.g., the third prime)?
How to ask a question to get a cardinal number answer
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What is the correct way to express the ordinal form of a large number?
If I want to express...
The 1114th person
...with the number in words, would it be best to do...
The one thousand, one hundred and fourteenth person
...or hyphenated...
The ...
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How will I ask this particular question? [duplicate]
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Framing a question to which the answer is an ordinal number
How to phrase an asking sentence that must be answered with an ordinal number?
How to ask a question to get a ...
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How do you say this in English? [duplicate]
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Framing a question to which the answer is an ordinal number
How to phrase an asking sentence that must be answered with an ordinal number (e.g., the third prime) ?
It ...
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How to ask a question to get an ordinal number answer [duplicate]
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How to phrase an asking sentence that must be answered with an ordinal number?
Framing a question to which the answer is an ordinal number
Given that I want to know ...
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Framing a question to which you reply with “I am the third born in my family” [duplicate]
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Framing a question to which the answer is an ordinal number
would it be if i asked what is your relative position terms of birth order in your family
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What method of counting puts Twelfth Night on January 6th?
I know English has (or at least had) some strange usages of eve and night, but I still can’t figure out how December 25th and 12 can be combined to come up with January 6th.
(This stems from my ...
