I'm wondering which is the right usage between "the 1st" and "1st" in these sentences: a) The United States ranked 1st in Bloomberg's Global Innovation Index. b) The United States ranked …

When is it proper to use 1st instead of first? For example, is the correct sentence acceptable? Can you give more detail about why you 1st got involved? I tried finding some authoritative …

2014年8月23日 · Our numbers have a specific two-letter combination that tells us how the number sounds. For example 9th 3rd 301st What do we call these special sounds?

2016年5月19日 · I like to say -1 as negative one. So, should I say "negative oneth index" or "negative first index"? Which one is grammatical? Is there a way to avoid this problem altogether.

When were numeric contractions for ordinals first used, as in 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 6th instead of first, second, third, sixth?

2015年4月10日 · Ground floor – First floor: In British English, the floor of a building which is level with the ground is called the ground floor. The floor above it is called the first floor, the floor …

2016年4月17日 · 8 I wanted to know, while writing dates such as 1st April or 2nd March; do we need to superscript the st and the nd as 1 st April and 2 nd March, or is it ok to write them …

Using the cipher (0) as an interval indicator is rare and confusing. Hour 1 = t=0-1, hour 2 (the second hour) = t = 1-2 etc (ignoring the interval-boundary–naming problem), but hour 0 is …

2014年8月28日 · As others have specified, the word by is generally synonymous with no later than when referring to a date or time. However, it is important to note (and this is why I am …

Suppose that on the first floor of a building, there are three separate apartments numbered 1, 2 and 3 respectively. How can I refer to one of them when writing a postal address? I am …