Re: Negative ordinality (was: Please welcome . . .)
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 16, 2003, 1:54 |
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On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 08:41:39PM +0000, Ray Brown wrote:
> >At any rate, the form "minus oneth" is in use,
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> I know - but then so, alas, is 'thirty-twoth' for my old fashioned 'thirty-
> second'.
Thirty-twoth? Really? Are you sure they weren't counting teeth?
"Yup, that's a 30-tooth skull, all right . . ." I've never heard such a
thing. Except for ..11th and ..12th, numbers ending in 1 and 2 are
always ..1st and ..2nd.
-Mark
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