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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
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English spelling question "ninth"

pondering why 9th is spelled ninth and not nineth.
  

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If you solve it, could you tackle 40 as forty instead of fourty?

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  • If you solve it, could you tackle 40 as forty instead of fourty?
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If you solve it, could you tackle 40 as forty instead of fourty?
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And then there's ninety-ninth, which it seems should be either 'ninty-ninth' or 'ninety-nineth'. And don't even think about how "colonel" can possibly rhyme with "journal".
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