Re: I'm new!

Dennis Paul Himes wrote, quoting James O'Connell:

> : Cardinal numbers are formed by taking the ordinal version and adding ér.
> : eg. kyancel (1005) - kyancelér (1005th)
>
>     This is backwards.  1005 is the cardinal and 1005th is the ordinal.
I remember, as a kid, wondering what the correct word might be for the
fraction 1/21 (half, third, quarter, ... twenty-wunth)

So I asked Dad, "What is the [T:] number for twenty-one?"

He had no idea what I meant, and I never did find out :-)

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