For example 9th 3rd 301st what do we call these special sounds? Style clarification for date superscripts, th, st and nd ask question asked 9 years, 7 months ago modified 5 months ago Consider the th in thistle versus the th in this
The former is unvoiced, while the latter is voiced The ones ending in ht all have the [t] sound (or some allophonic variant thereof). Is there a rule or reason for the differences?
Some words end with ‑th while others end with ‑ht Height, weight, thought, drought, sleight, sight all end with ‑ht Length, width, breadth, depth, wealth, girth, dearth all end with ‑th Is there any rule i can use so i can know whether i should put ‑th or ‑ht at the end of a given word?
The 'th' sound following 's' is made with the identical tongue/teeth/lips position as 'th' in the word 'thing' except it's voiced You should feel a slight tingling sensation on the tongue. When writing twentieth century using an ordinal numeral, should the th part be in superscript 1 th/s = 1,000 gh/s = 1,000,000 mh/s = 1,000,000,000 kh/s and so forth si unit prefixes the denomination of hash rates follows the international system of units (si)
When were numeric contractions for ordinals first used, as in 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 6th instead of first, second, third, sixth? The ones ending in th all have the [θ] sound, which is formed by putting the tip of the tongue between the front teeth and blowing
