Re: Negative ordinality (was: Please welcome . . .)
| From: | Isidora Zamora <isidora@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 16, 2003, 6:02 |
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>A fellow typist in the Army long ago for some reason had typed up a long
>list of ordinals...it went "....18th, 19th, 20th, 21th, 22th, 23th,
>24th......" We all had a good laugh, but he was mortified. He knew better,
>he just got carried away with the rhythm of the typing I suppose.
Now try reading that list aloud, and see if you can do it right the first
time! It took me about three tries to pronounce it as written.
Isidora