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- “20th century” vs. “20ᵗʰ century” - English Language Usage . . .
The goal of any writer should be making something that is clear for the reader, not ease of typing for the writer, which although quite common, is really just a form a selfishness If writing 20th might look like a typo for writing loth or moth, you certainly want to avoid that Do 10th, 20th, loth, both look much the same? If so, you may wish
- What do we call the “rd” in “3ʳᵈ” and the “th” in “9ᵗʰ”?
I would regard the "nd" in "second" as a suffix on the number "3", like the "th" in "20th" For example, I would suggest that "VIP" [Very Important Person] is made plural by adding a "-s" suffix, even though the resultant phrase [Very Important People] doesn't contain the letter "s" anywhere within it
- nouns - use of capital C in the word Century - English Language . . .
century Lowercase, spelling out numbers less than ten: the first century, the 20th century From The Chicago Manual of Style, fifteenth edition (2003): 9 36 Centuries Particular centuries are spelled out and lowercased [Examples:] the twenty-first century; the eighth and ninth centuries; the eighteen hundreds (the nineteenth century)
- word usage - What does turn of the century mean? - English Language . . .
Those of us born in the middle of the 20th century learned two phrases from our (predominently 20th century) parents These were: "The turn of the century" which was, roughly, the period ftom 1890 to 1910 and "The turn of the last century" which was, roughly, the period from 1790 to 1810 Updating those means that "The turn of the century
- When back, if I say Out of office until Thursday
I am always confused when I get an email stating "out of office until Thursday" Is the sender back on Thursday or still out of office (o o o ) on Thursday and only back on Friday?
- Does nineteen-hundreds refer to 1900–1909 or 1900–1999?
I've never known "nineteen hundreds" to mean anything but the 20th century I come from a Computer Science background, so I understand why logically it would seem to be "nineteen hundreds" --> 1900-1909, "nineteen hundred and tens" --> 1910-1919, etc , but I haven't heard it used to refer only to 1900-1909
- 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
- meaning - How should midnight on. . . be interpreted? - English . . .
By most definitions, the date changes at midnight That is, at the precise stroke of 12:00:00 That time, along with 12:00:00 noon, are technically neither AM or PM because AM and PM mean "ante-meridiem" and "post-meridiem", and noon and midnight are neither ante- nor post- meridiem
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