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Bookmark or Share- 31th or 31st is correct? - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange31st, etc. are the correct options. When you use ordinal numbers ending in 1, you use first. The only exception is eleventh, because although it ends in 1 its “name” doesn’t contain the word “one” like 21, 31, etc.
- What do we call the “rd” in “3ʳᵈ” and the “th” in “9ᵗʰ”?@WS2 In speech, very nearly always. In writing, much less so. I think what may be going on is that one just assumes that “June 1” is pronounced “June First”, or “4 July” as “the Fourth of July”.
- “20th century” vs. “20ᵗʰ century” - English Language & Usage ...To some extent, it depends on the font you are using and how accessible its special features are. If you can do full typesetting, then you probably want to make the th part look different from the 20 part, just like they do here:
- Meaning of "by" when used with dates - inclusive or exclusiveIf, in a contract fr example, the text reads: "X has to finish the work by MM-DD-YYYY", does the "by" include the date or exclude it? In other words, will the work delivered on the specified date
- prepositions - "Before date" versus "by date" - English Language ...Although, by definition, “before Tuesday” actually means “by Monday at the latest”, many people still confuse “by” (up to AND including) and “before” (up to BUT excluding).
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