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FAQ Item Numbers Q. Hi. Can you please outline your recommended approach to ordinals when using the...recommend “17th century”? The general rule applies to cardinals and ordinals, but how about the...the general rule, applies equally to cardinals and ordinals. If you’re following the general rule...

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spelled out or a numeral? CMOS 9.31 only addresses the treatment of ordinals when the month is not...uses a cardinal rather than an ordinal numeral for the day, whether the year is expressed or not...recommendation would be to spell out ordinals for the day of the week even when the month is mentioned...

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marks can take its place? A. Hmm. Is this a state or local ordinance? (Surely not federal—Congress would...

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cardinal rather than an ordinal, even though the number may be pronounced as an ordinal: the events...usually in the form of an ordinal but spelled out: September 10, 2001, was the last day of its kind in...

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including the comma after the ordinal? A. No, since this order of elements requires the year to be..., not spelled-out ordinals, in dates (August 25, 1989), spelling out “twenty-fifth” tells the actor how to read the number....

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superscript setting for ordinals in AutoFormat and AutoFormat As You Type. Or you can type Ctrl+Z (Command-Z...on a Mac) to undo the “correction” each time you type an ordinal....

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technical contexts. Even in the sciences, numbers in the form of ordinals are often spelled out below...10th, on the principle that an ordinal refers to a ranking rather than to a precise quantity. On the...

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. Chicago style doesn't include the extensions in either case. When the ordinal is called for, we spell it...

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the number is a cardinal (“one”) or an ordinal (“first”). But numerals are preferred in many...

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one hundred, cardinals and ordinals alike (i.e., “five” and “fifth”; “eighteen” and “eighteenth...

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