Interesting, I didn't realize that! But do those languages use "th" as the indicator for ordinal numbers? Either way, just seemed odd to me. But then again, taking advice from the internet is always a good idea, right?finnbogi wrote:Perhaps not in English, but this is standard in most Romance and Slavic languages. The OP has already said that he is not a native English speaker, so this may well be the way everyone writes numbers (at least those of centuries) in his part of the world.
Besides, it's not really that confusing, is it?
[/quote]It's also common (without the "th") in scholarly/academic historiographic research/writing, even in the US.
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