Re: Cardinals and ordinals

On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Isidora Zamora wrote:

> (English "third" is derived irregularly and "first" and "second"
> appear not to be derived at all from the corresponding cardinals.
/me pipes up for poor forgotten fifth!

('First' originally meant something like 'foremost'. 'Second' is, of
course, a borrowing. I imagine you know this already but I'm just bringing
it up because I didn't want a one-line post.)


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