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 …

2014年8月23日 · However, as in the second and third examples, the rd & st simply come from the right-end of the word for the ordinal number: 3 rd: thi rd. 301 st: (three-hundred-) fir st …

He was the first person to land on the moon. The green Camaro was the first car over the finish line. With that, they became the third university to have over 1000 students. When the ordinal …

2015年4月10日 · Neverless in many hotels, the first floor is often referred to as a lobby. First Floor/ Ground Floor In the US, the first floor of a building is also the ground floor, but in Europe …

The numerals with endings are merely abbreviations for the words written out as text. When in doubt, write the word out. Thirty-first becomes 31st, eleventh 11th, forty-second 42nd, fiftieth …

My first thought was: it's font-dependent. (MS Word automatically superscripts such ordinals, and I usually undo that action, because the result looks ugly! But, as tchrist says, if you can get it to …

Consider this century. In English, it is referred to as the twenty-first century, even though it starts with 20. That's because if you count backwards to the start of the Christian time labeling, the …

To expand a little on Ben's answer, the British practice is not to use a full stop where the abbreviation contains the first and last letters of the word abbreviated. So, St (which can also …

2014年10月22日 · Where you break the 'st' between syllables depends on a lot of factors, including which syllable is stressed. If the 'st' occurs at the start of a stressed syllable, it won't …

2016年4月17日 · I guess you want the reader to infer that the question is irrelevant since “st”, etc. should, according to the CMS, not be written at all. I think this should be explicitly stated for …