Our numbers have a specific two-letter combination that tells us how the number sounds. For example 9th 3rd 301st What do we call these special sounds?
Is it just because "ninth" has only one syllable? That wouldn't make sense, though, because saying "NINE-ith" wouldn't be worse than saying "NINE-e-tee". If we were used to "nineth", we would hav...
Possibly worth explicitly adding that prior to "the beginning of the year was moved to 1 January" the beginning of the Roman year used to be March 1st, so September was the 7th month, October the 8th and so on. See also The Roman calendar, which also confirms that July/August were not inserted, just renamed from Quintilis and Sextilis.
When writing on a certificate "between the 28th March and the 9th April" does it mean the same as "from the 28th March to the 9th April" ?
Straddling Thursday and Friday Straddling today and tomorrow but should they technically mean: straddling the 9th and the 10th of December? straddling Wednesday and Thursday? This is much less clear. Technically is there a midnight "tonight", or is midnight "tomorrow morning"? What do you think? How should "midnight" be interpreted?
As others have specified, the word by is generally synonymous with no later than when referring to a date or time. However, it is important to note (and this is why I am adding another answer) that if all you know is "The work must be completed by MM-DD-YYYY", then the exact due date is still ambiguous. Without additional information, 'due by MM-DD-YYYY' has a fair chance of meaning: Due at or ...
In my experience, in addition to high school 11th and 12th graders being called juniors and seniors, high school 9th graders and 10th graders (14-16 years old) are also known as freshmen and sophomores.
E.g. if there are 10 items, 1 to 10, how can I call the 8th and 9th item? If I translate from my own language (Dutch), I get twice the same result: 8 Tweenalaatste Second-to-last 9
In Turabian and Chicago, you generally capitalize the first letter of quotes that function as complete sentences [as you've quoted them, not necessarily as they appear in the original] and are not part of the syntax of the sentence. I include Chicago because Kate L. Turabian's A Manual for Writers 9th edition is based on The Chicago Manual of Style 17th edition, as the preface to Turabian ...
You won't catch him on the 10th, 9th... But you've a chance on the 11th. More so later in the day. 'Up to and including' and 'until and including' are widely used to show that the end-point of the interval in question is meant to be included, but with a 'wide end-point' (like 'the 11th'), a certain amount of uncertainty is bound to remain.
