2014年8月23日 · 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).

The Old English Latin alphabet adapted the runic letters þ (thorn) and ð (eth) to represent this sound, but the digraph th gradually superseded these letters in Middle English. However, in early Old English of the 7th and 8th centuries, the runic letters were initially not used yet and the digraph used in its place.

There they have idiosyncratically used 20 th rather than 20 th, but the point is that the letters and numbers — more properly, the figures — look different. Figures can be proportionally spaced like letters, and so a digit 1 would take up less room than a digit 4.

2014年12月6日 · 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 ...

2016年12月3日 · The suffix -th was added to it in Middle English by analogy with words like length and width. The vowel also ended up being shortened, which is not surprising since the word ends in a consonant cluster "dth" and the Middle English vowel that corresponds to the "ea" in this word (/ɛː/) was sometimes shortened even before a single consonant (as ...

2017年8月20日 · "The 13.5 TH/s is $2773.28 US" would mean, a machine with such a power can generate this amount of Dollars

2014年11月22日 · th-alveolarization In rarer or older varieties of African American Vernacular English, /θ/ may be pronounced [s], as in bathroom [ˈbæsɹum]. Children with a lisp , however, have trouble distinguishing /θ/ and /ð/ from /s/ and /z/ respectively in speech, using a single /θ/ or /ð/ pronunciation for both, and may never master the correct ...

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2010年9月22日 · You could never tell which it was because it was always spoken as Th'art. As pointed out before thy is possessive, but it could used in place of thee/thou. If thy (or maybe tha) wants some th'ard better get a move on. I am not quite sure what verb and conjugation 'ard is. And th'all (they-all this time) knew a brogue was a shoe.

2016年4月17日 · I wanted to know, while writing dates such as 1st April or 2nd March; do we need to superscript the st and the nd as 1st April and 2nd March, or is it ok to write them without the superscript forma...