twoth

[Mark Mandel]

How common is it in natural languages to have an ordinal interrogative word?
Esperanto has "kioma", derived by adjectivizing "kiom"  'how much/many"?

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On Jan 17, 2008 8:48 PM, Bill Le May <blemay0 at mchsi.com> wrote:

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> > Thank heaven this is not likely to lead to oneth and thirdth.  (If I
> > come across speakers of these, I won't stand too close.)
>
> In childhood I remember saying "what-th". Wondering the day of the month,
> I
> would ask a parent "what day is it" and inevitably get an answer like
> "Wednesday". Frustrated, I'd reply, "No, I mean today is that what-th of
> January?"
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