Editing Ordinal indicator (section)

=== English ===
{{further|English ordinal numbers}}
* ''-st'' is used with numbers ending in ''1'' (e.g. ''1st'', pronounced ''fir'''st''''')
* ''-nd'' is used with numbers ending in ''2'' (e.g. ''92nd'', pronounced ''ninety-seco'''nd''''')
* ''-rd'' is used with numbers ending in ''3'' (e.g. ''33rd'', pronounced ''thirty-thi'''rd''''')
* As an exception to the above rules, numbers ending with ''11'', ''12'', and ''13'' use ''-th'' (e.g. ''11th'', pronounced ''eleven'''th''''', ''112th'', pronounced ''one hundred [and] {{Not a typo|twelf}}'''th''''')
* ''-th'' is used for all other numbers (e.g. 9th, pronounced ''nin'''th''''').
* One archaic variant uses a singular ''-d'' for numbers ending in 2 or 3 (e.g. ''92d'' or ''33d'')

In 19th-century handwriting, these terminals were often elevated, that is to say written as superscripts (e.g. {{notatypo|2<sup>nd</sup>, 34<sup>th</sup>}}). With the gradual introduction of the [[typewriter]] in the late 19th century, it became common to write them on the baseline in typewritten texts,<ref>e.g. Max Harold Fisch, Christian J. W. Kloesel, "Essay on the Editorial Method", in ''Writings of Charles S. Peirce: 1879-1884'', vol. 4 (1989), [https://archive.org/details/writingsofcharle0002peir/page/629 p. 629]:
"In all MSS in this period, Peirce inscribed "st," "nd," "rd," and "th" in the superscript position: for convenience's sake, they are on the line in typewritten pieces. In published pieces the ordinals are superscripted to conform to Peirce's style; {{notatypo|"2<sup>nd</sup>" and "3<sup>rd</sup>"}} are emended to "2nd" and "3rd". When Peirce typed abbreviated ordinals on the line, these mechanical exceptions attributable to his typewriter have been changed to superscript ordinals."</ref> and this usage even became recommended in certain 20th-century style guides. Thus, the 17th edition of ''[[The Chicago Manual of Style]]'' states: "The letters in ordinal numbers should not appear as superscripts (e.g., 122nd not {{notatypo|122<sup>nd</sup>}})", as do the ''[[Bluebook]]''<ref name="TforL"/> and style guides by the ''[[Council of Science Editors]]'',<ref>{{cite book |title=Writing Papers in the Biological Sciences |first=Victoria E. |last=McMillan |publisher=Bedford / St. Martin's |year=2011 |page=79 |isbn=978-0-3126-4971-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d05qOgVpXMgC&pg=PA79 |access-date=4 October 2012}}</ref> [[Microsoft Manual of Style for Technical Publications|Microsoft]],<ref>{{cite book |title=Microsoft Manual of Style |publisher=Microsoft Press |edition=4th |page=316 |year=2012 |isbn=978-0-7356-6979-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ifhpFdraIkQC&pg=PT316 |access-date=4 October 2012}}</ref> and [[Yahoo!|Yahoo]].<ref>{{cite book |title=The Yahoo! Style Guide |publisher=Macmillan |year=2010 |page=359 |first1=Chris |last1=Barr|last2=Yahoo! |isbn=978-0-3125-6984-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z2m9AG-Y2lQC&pg=PT359 |access-date=4 October 2012}}</ref> Two problems are that superscripts are used "most often in citations" and are "tiny and hard to read".<ref name="TforL">{{cite web |title=Typography for Lawyers - Ordinals |first=Matthew|last=Butterick |date=4 October 2012 |url=http://www.typographyforlawyers.com/?page_id=1785 |access-date=4 October 2012|quote=''Bluebook'' rule 6.2(b)(i) (19th ed. 2010)}}</ref> Some [[word processor]]s format ordinal indicators as superscripts by default (e.g. [[Microsoft Word]]<ref>{{Citation | url = http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/automatic-formatting-results-HP005262013.aspx | publisher = Microsoft | series = Office | title = Word Help | contribution = Automatic formatting results}}.</ref>). Style guide author Jack Lynch ([[Rutgers University|Rutgers]]) recommends turning off automatic superscripting of ordinals in [[Microsoft Word]], because "no professionally printed books use superscripts".<ref>{{cite book |title=The English Language: A User's Guide |first=Jack |last=Lynch |date=30 April 2007 |publisher = Focus Publishing/R. Pullins Company |isbn=978-1-5851-0185-6 |pages=131,213] |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781585101856/page/131}}<br />{{cite web |title=Guide to Grammar and Style — M |first=Jack |last=Lynch |date=28 January 2011 |publisher=Rutgers University |url=http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/m.html#msword |access-date=4 October 2012 |quote=[...] ordinal numbers [...] no professionally printed books use superscripts [...] |archive-date=5 August 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120805154119/http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/m.html#msword |url-status=dead}}</ref>

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