Re: Ordinal Numbers (1st, 2nd, etc.)
Re: Ordinal Numbers (1st, 2nd, etc.)
- Subject: Re: Ordinal Numbers (1st, 2nd, etc.)
- From: Paul Skinner <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 09:33:17 -0400
on 8/17/01 5:47 AM, Nigel Garvey wrote:
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Jason Bourque wrote on Thu, 16 Aug 2001 22:05:20 -0400:
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Snip!
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Is there a proper English way to ordinalise negatives and fractional
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numbers? Minus oneth or minus first? 3.2th or 3.2nd?
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NG
Those are cardinal numbers.
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Cardinal numbers, the numbers one, two, three, etc., in distinction from
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first, second, third, etc., which are called ordinal numbers.
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www.dictionary.com
But of course they may also be the first and second cardinal numbers in a
list.
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