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Bookmark or Share- What do we call the “rd” in “3ʳᵈ” and the “th” in “9ᵗʰ”?The addition of -th/ -eth relates to numbers 4 to 20 (and similarly,) and is a suffix to the cardinal number. However, as in the second and third examples, the rd & st simply come from the right-end of the word for the ordinal number: 3 rd: thi rd. 301 st: (three-hundred-) fir st (shouldn't that be 301 th?, I'm not going there).
- Is there any word in English where "th" sounds like "t+h"?Some non-compounds spelled th and pronounced /th/ rather than /θ/ are: Thomas, thyme, Thailand, and, sometimes, Neanderthal. Many natives might tell you that the h is unpronounced—even though when they say the words, they pronounce it clearly. In fact, written t is normally pronounced /th/ even though the h is not written, and most natives ...
- Is there a rule for pronouncing “th” at the beginning of a word?The awareness that some Latin words in t- were from Greek th- encouraged over-correction in English and created unetymological forms such as Thames and author, while some words borrowed from Romanic languages preserve, on the Roman model, the Greek -th- spelling but the simple Latin "t" pronunciation (as in Thomas and thyme). (Etymonline)
- abbreviations - When were st, nd, rd, and th, first used - English ...Most Romance languages do, along with a number of others, including Dutch and English. In English, Wikipedia says these started out as superscripts: 1 st, 2 nd, 3 rd, 4 th, but during the 20 th century they migrated to the baseline: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th. So the practice started during the Roman empire, and probably was continuously used since ...
- Why was the "th" combination chosen for the "th" sound?The origin of 'th' really has nothing to do with the development of the English language. It comes directly from the Roman alphabet. From Wikipedia.: The digraph ‹th› was introduced in Latin, which used it to transliterate the letter theta ‹Θ, θ› in loans from Greek. Theta was pronounced as an aspirated stop /tʰ/ in Classical and ...
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