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 …

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 …

May 19, 2016 · 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?

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 …

1st or 3rd person in CV/résumé? [duplicate] Ask Question Asked 13 years, 11 months ago Modified 12 years, 8 months ago

Jun 4, 2015 · 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 …

When writing twentieth century using an ordinal numeral, should the th part be in superscript? 20th century 20th century

or April 1st When it comes to numerical date values, this can get trickier due to audience. In the US, we always list the month first in a numerical date (4/1 or 4/1/2016), but for most of the rest …

Is it grammatically correct to sequence paragraphs using First, Second, Third, and Finally? If not, is there a good word that replaces Finally? Starting a paragraph with Final doesn't sound corre...