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The systematic ordinals start at one. The word one becomes first, two becomes second, three becomes third, and everything else has th appended.
by beojan 8y ago
The systematic ordinals start at one. The word one becomes first, two becomes second, three becomes third, and everything else has th appended.
- thaumasiotes 8y agoThis commment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17165382 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17165382 ) accurately slams the extreme complexity of English ordinals in specific, and is sibling to my parent comment. In order to call the ordinals perfectly systematic, you need to take the irregular cardinals as a given. If you're having trouble there, you'll have trouble with the ordinals too.