Help for 11st or 11th !

[Sam Yu]

Dear All,

Very simple grammar question:-
For date format:

Group A using:- Group B using:-
1st July, 2005 1st July,
2005
2nd July, 2005 2nd July,
2005
3rd July, 2005 3rd July,
2005
4th July, 2005 4th July,
2005
11st July, 2005 * 11th July,
2005 *
12nd July,2005 * 12th July,
2005 *

Could you tell me which group is correct ? (A or B)

(Search from Internet, both of them are being used.)

Thanks for your help !!

B. regards,
Sam

[Skitt]

Post by Sam Yu
Dear All,
Very simple grammar question:-
Group A using:- Group B
using:- 1st July, 2005 1st
July, 2005
2nd July, 2005 2nd
July, 2005
3rd July, 2005 3rd
July, 2005
4th July, 2005 4th
July, 2005
11st July, 2005 * 11th
July, 2005 *
12nd July,2005 * 12th
July, 2005 *
Could you tell me which group is correct ? (A or B)
(Search from Internet, both of them are being used.)
Thanks for your help !!

After figuring out your weird format, (caused by line lengths that are too
long with hard returns and are even worse now) it is Group B that had it
down pat.

[Sam Yu]

Thanks a lot !

Post by Skitt

Post by Sam Yu
Dear All,
Very simple grammar question:-
Group A using:- Group B
using:- 1st July, 2005 1st
July, 2005
2nd July, 2005 2nd
July, 2005
3rd July, 2005 3rd
July, 2005
4th July, 2005 4th
July, 2005
11st July, 2005 * 11th
July, 2005 *
12nd July,2005 * 12th
July, 2005 *
Could you tell me which group is correct ? (A or B)
(Search from Internet, both of them are being used.)
Thanks for your help !!

After figuring out your weird format, (caused by line lengths that are too
long with hard returns and are even worse now) it is Group B that had it
down pat.
--
Skitt (in Hayward, California)
www.geocities.com/opus731/

[Steve MacGregor]

Post by Sam Yu
Very simple grammar question:-
Group A using:- Group B using:-
11st July, 2005 * 11th July, 2005 *

Group B is correct. If the tens-digit is a one, use "th"; otherwise,
go by the ones-digit: "st" for a one, "nd" for a two, "rd" for a
three, and "th" for all other digits.

In one computer game I have, there is sometimes a unit named "111st
Infantry". I simply pronounce this "eleventy-first infantry".

[R H Draney]

Post by Steve MacGregor

Post by Sam Yu
Very simple grammar question:-
Group A using:- Group B using:-
11st July, 2005 * 11th July, 2005 *

Group B is correct. If the tens-digit is a one, use "th"; otherwise,
go by the ones-digit: "st" for a one, "nd" for a two, "rd" for a
three, and "th" for all other digits.
In one computer game I have, there is sometimes a unit named "111st
Infantry". I simply pronounce this "eleventy-first infantry".

Less than forty years ago, Reader's Digest reported a dentist who drove a car
with a vanity plate reading "2TH DOC"....r