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Vincent Teo Posted 19 years ago
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10th birthday

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02font 02br 02br 01font 00Yes. But it sounds very formal. More informal would be something like00 'He went to his brother's 10th.

— Clive

  • 02font 02br 02br 01font 00Yes.
  • But it sounds very formal.
  • More informal would be something like00 'He went to his brother's 10th.
  • 02font 02br 02br 00Best wishes, Clive0-
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0Hi,02br
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0 Hi Clive,02br
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01font01i00'He went to his brother's 10th01font00. 02font00birthday party'. 02br
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02i00I wonder if the fullstop after 01i0010th 02i00is needed or it is just a typo. 02br
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01cite10Peaceblinkfriend12cite10Hi Clive,12br
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11font11i10'He went to his brother's 10th11font10. 12font10birthday party'. 12br
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0Hi,02br
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00This is an interesting point. As a child, I was taught to use a period after an ordinal number. 02br
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00eg Today is the 13th01b01font00.02font02b00 of October. eg01i00 (on a letter)02i00 13th01font01b00.02b02
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0 I was taught always to put a full stop after an abbreviation or initials - the modern world hasn't time for such niceties (and reckons to save time and space by omitting them). It irritates me unbearably to see someone's name without the full stops - it can be so confusing. 0-
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01font10I'm curious as to whether anyone else was taught the same as I was. 12font12blockquote
10No. I've never heard of that sort of punctuation until this very day. 05002br
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0I'd never heard of that sort of puctuation until I went to Germany. For 01i00May 13th02i00 the Germans would write 01i0013. Mai02i00. 02br
00I also had no idea that some people might have been taught to do the same thing in English.0-
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