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.

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Latin alphabet adapted the runic letters þ (thorn) and ð (eth) to represent this sound, but the digraph th gradually superseded these letters in Middle English.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.

Aug 23, 2014 · 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).

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. Here is a ...

Mar 1, 2016 · Some non-compounds spelled th and pronounced /th/ rather than /θ/ are: Thomas, thyme, Thailand, and, sometimes, Neanderthal. Many natives might tell you that the h is unpronounced—even though when they say the words, they pronounce it clearly. In fact, written t is normally pronounced /th/ even though the h is not written, and most natives ...

Dec 6, 2014 · 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 ...

The secondary issue is that of spelling, as you find th and ht confusing. This is a matter of mis-parsing some common English digraphs. This is a matter of mis-parsing some common English digraphs. When attempting to read those words, you shouldn't take h and t together, but rather g and h together, as the digraph gh is pretty common in English ...

Jun 20, 2018 · A 'th' (voiced or not) is a dental fricative (the tip of the tongue behind the top front teeth). Fronting it (moving articulation more forward) is to the labiodental position, the lower lip contacting the front upper teeth. 'Th' is a rare sound in the world's languages (some varieties of Spanish (Castilian) and Arabic (MSA), are notable for ...

Jan 5, 2021 · The TH was also D in middle English along with old English. Also the word "mother": "female parent, a woman in relation to her child," Middle English moder, from Old English modor. But the word "brother":

I would like to know if there is a common abbreviation for days of the week in a two letter form. I mean: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday; can be abbreviated as Su, ...