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abbreviations - When is it proper to abbreviate first to 1st? - English . . . Barring cases of extreme abbreviations (where one might use such abbreviations as "t ppl complaind abt t difficulty n reading c", such as some live internet chat room, or mediaeval manuscripts) then 1st must only be used when first is an actual ordinal; that is it could be replaced by "in position number one" and make the same sense, albeit clumsily:
What do we call the “rd” in “3ʳᵈ” and the “th” in “9ᵗʰ”? @WS2 In speech, very nearly always In writing, much less so I think what may be going on is that one just assumes that “June 1” is pronounced “June First”, or “4 July” as “the Fourth of July”
the 1st or 1st - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Add a comment -1 You're right, in your example, sentence (a) is heard in the news, and it is also correct, but 'the first' is used in cases like: She was the first woman to become Prime Minister and when talking about events like the Olympics where medals are awarded for those places: He was the first over the line
What is a word for getting an award in a competition or being one of . . . There are multiple ways to express this in competitions: Winner, 1st runner-up, 2nd runner-up, etc 1st place, 2nd place, 3rd place, 1st prize, 2nd prize, etc In your example it may help to say how many were competing, because if you came in 3rd place out of three, that is quite different that third place out of 100, or however many
abbreviations - When were st, nd, rd, and th, first used - English . . . Most Romance languages do, along with a number of others, including Dutch and English In English, Wikipedia says these started out as superscripts: 1 st, 2 nd, 3 rd, 4 th, but during the 20 th century they migrated to the baseline: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th So the practice started during the Roman empire, and probably was continuously used since
grammar - First, Second, Third, and Finally - English Language Usage . . . Initially To begin with OR to start with (less formal) = First (ly) Then next after that afterwards = later In addition additionally = Second (ly) Furthermore moreover OR What's more (less formal) = Third (ly) In conclusion lastly OR in the end (less formal)= Finally To start with, I grabbed a spoon
Style clarification for date superscripts, th, st and nd The Chicago Manual of Style 2017 says in section 9 6: The letters in ordinal numbers should not appear as superscripts (e g , 122nd, not 122 nd) According to Wikipedia, Bluebook and style guides by the Council of Science Editors, Microsoft, and Yahoo recommend the same Share
First floor vs ground floor, usage origin - English Language Usage . . . Similarly on a different English language forum, a native speaker confirms In the US, “ground floor” and “first floor” mean the same thing and are used interchangeably Usually elevator buttons marked ‘B1’, ‘B2’ etc do indeed refer to “basement” Sometimes they will say ‘LL1’, ‘LL2’, which stands for “lower level
Meaning of by when used with dates - inclusive or exclusive If, in a contract fr example, the text reads: "X has to finish the work by MM-DD-YYYY", does the "by" include the date or exclude it? In other words, will the work delivered on the specified date
prepositions - On vs At with date and time - English Language Usage . . . This must be a simple question for a native speaker I know that we use "on" with dates: I'll see you on January 1st And we use "at" with times: I'll see you at 17:30 But what preposition has to be used when we speak for date and time: I'll see you on January 1st at 17:30 looks ok But what in this case: It happened on 2014-01-01 17:30
