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Patchyboy Posted 20 years ago
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I am the second Child of my Parents

0 Can some one form a question that will get " I am the second Child of my Parents" for an answer?? I think "howmanieth" would be a ideal word, but am not sure if this word exists. Any substitutes? 0-
  

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0We've been discussing the lack of words in English for the order in which something occurs quite recently a couple of times (the main example we have been talking about is number order of presidents). There is no single word in English to make this sort of 00enquiry. One would probably be useful, although I did not notice the lack of one until it cropped up here, but I'm afraid there isn't and there is no point in making up workds like howmanieth.

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  • 0We've been discussing the lack of words in English for the order in which something occurs quite recently a couple of times (the main example we have been talking about is number order of presidents).
  • There is no single word in English to make this sort of 00enquiry.
  • One would probably be useful, although I did not notice the lack of one until it cropped up here, but I'm afraid there isn't and there is no point in making up workds like howmanieth.
  • ' or 'So are you the baby of the family' and then the person may say something like, 'no, I'm the second child'.
  • 02br 02br 00See this thread for more comments: 050040pid132927
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0We've been discussing the lack of words in English for the order in which something occurs quite recently a couple of times (the main example we have been talking about is number order of presidents). There is no single word in English to make this sort of 00enquiry. One would probably be useful, although I did not notice the lack of one until it cropped up here, but I'm afraid there isn't
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0Kindly see this research paper in this connection:02br
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01cite10Patchyboy12cite10Can some one form a question that will get " I am the second Child of my Parents" for an answer?? I think 10"howmanieth"10 would be a ideal word, but am not sure if this word exists. Any substitutes?12blockquote
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01cite10Philip12cite11blockquote
11cite20Patchyboy22cite20Can some one form a question that will get " I am the second Child of my Parents" for an answer?? I think 20"howmanieth"20 would be a ideal word, but am not sure if this word exists. Any substitutes?22blockquote
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0The problem with "which president" is that in addition to "the 41st" you could get "he was that really fat one" or "he was the one who died after a month in office" or "he was the one who was a bachelor" or "he was the one who denied having sexual relations with 'that' woman."02br
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00"Which" just isn't specific enough to mean "howmanieth?"0-
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0Unfortunately, "howmanieth" looks like the obsolete 3rd person singular (present tense) of a little-known intransitive verb meaning "to stand in perplexity and ponder the tally of something".02br
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00I concede that such a verb might prove very useful, of course.02br
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01cite10MrPedantic12cite10Unfortunately,10 "howmanieth" looks like the obsolete 3rd person singular (present tense) of a little-known intransitive verb meaning "to stand in perplexity and ponder the tally of something".12br
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10I concede that such a verb might prove very useful, of course.12br
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0 Where did his term fall in the chronology of presidents? 0-
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