Julian Bradfield wrote: >> in the 17ᵗʰ or 18ᵗʰ century to keep it only for ordinals. Should >> Unicode > > What do you mean, for ordinals? If you mean 1st, 2nd etc., then there > is not now (when superscripting looks very old-fashioned) and never > has been any requirement to superscript them, as far as I know - > though since the OED doesn't have an entry for "1st", I can't easily > check. The English Wikipedia article "Ordinal number (linguistics)" does not show numbers such as 1st, 2nd, etc. with superscripts, though as a rich-text Web page, it could easily. The article "English numerals" does include a bullet point: "The suffixes -th, -st, -nd and -rd are occasionally written superscript above the number itself." Note the word "occasionally." -- Doug Ewell | Thornton, CO, US | ewellic.org
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