Summer celebrations have a special swagger—sunshine, laughter, and a spread that makes you want to dive in head-first. With July 4th just around the corner, it’s time to assemble those crowd-pleasing ...
These easy Fourth of July appetizers are fun, colorful, and full of little patriotic details like american flag toothpicks and red white and blue sprinkles (yes, even on savory stuff when it works!).
These easy appetizers include delicious dips, bite-sized finger foods, and more crowd-pleasing snack ideas. They'll be a hit at any party!
which one is correct I will be on leave starting on October 4th till ...
Freshmen - 1st year college/university student Sophomore - 2nd year Junior - 3rd year Senior - 4th year However, since the British universities usually have three years in total, are there any equivalent words to these American expressions? Or Does British people just say "I'm a third-year" instead of "I'm a junior"?
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 then in the Romance languages. I don't know when it was adopted in English.
The 4th is next to last or last but one (penultimate). The 3rd is second from (or to) last or last but two (antepenultimate). The 2nd, is third from (or to) last or last but three. According to Google Ngram Viewer there are some occurrences of preantepenultimate in the corpus. As for dialect, you will rarely see the Latin forms other than ultimate except in discussion of the language Latin or ...