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Robert2 Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

Roman Ordinals

0Greetings--02br
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00Are abbreviated forms such as the following used nowadays?02br
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00XIXth02br
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00XVIIIth02br
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003"X"s+"th"02br
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00IInd02br
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00IIIrd02br
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00IVth02br
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00Vth02br
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002 "X"s +"I"+"st"02br
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00Also are superscripted forms possible:02br
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00XIX01sup00th02sup02br
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00XVIII01sup00th02sup02br
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003"X"s+"01sup00th"02sup02br
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00II01sup00nd02sup02br
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00III01sup00rd02sup02br
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00IV01sup00th02sup02br
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00V01sup00th02sup02br
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002 "X"s+"I"+"01sup00st"02sup02br
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01sup00Thank you for any answer.02sup02br
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00Cheers02br
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00Robert02br
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0Well, googling got me 247,000 pages of 01i 00XIXth02i 00, Robert. 0-

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  • 0Well, googling got me 247,000 pages of 01i 00XIXth02i 00, Robert.
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0Well, googling got me 247,000 pages of 01i00XIXth02i00, Robert. It looks like a good, legible, logical system to me.0-
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0I am aware of this but endings in "st", "nd", "rd" are extremely uncommon with Roman numbers.02br
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00Also I could never find instances of these endings being superscripted.02br
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00Finally, Italians (who should know a little about Roman ordinals) consider the addition of ordinal endings at the end of Roman figures to be incorrect. The Roman figures
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0I guess it's a Roman language tradition. You say "Henri trois" in French, not "Henri le troisième".02br
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00As to the supercripted endings, I've already enquired about them, and they're used, even underlined... At least with regular numbers.0-
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