2014年8月23日 · 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).

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Latin alphabet adapted the runic letters þ (thorn) and ð (eth) to represent this sound, but the digraph th gradually superseded these letters in Middle English.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

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.

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 ...

2014年12月6日 · 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 ...

2016年12月3日 · The suffix -th was added to it in Middle English by analogy with words like length and width. The vowel also ended up being shortened, which is not surprising since the word ends in a consonant cluster "dth" and the Middle English vowel that corresponds to the "ea" in this word (/ɛː/) was sometimes shortened even before a single consonant (as ...

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 ...

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2014年11月22日 · th-alveolarization In rarer or older varieties of African American Vernacular English, /θ/ may be pronounced [s], as in bathroom [ˈbæsɹum]. Children with a lisp , however, have trouble distinguishing /θ/ and /ð/ from /s/ and /z/ respectively in speech, using a single /θ/ or /ð/ pronunciation for both, and may never master the correct ...

2015年10月9日 · So, for example in the sequence in the, the th sound will often be realised as a voiced dental nasal, in other words as an [n] made on the back of the front teeth instead of on the alveolar ridge. So the th sound there will have adopted the manner of the consonant from the preceding /n/. This type of assimilation happens in many other sequences.