欧博百家乐What do we call the “rd” in “3ʳᵈ” and the “th

In the case of 9th, the superscript shown is indeed called the 'ordinal indicator' as Matt Gutting has noted in his answer.

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:

3rd: thi rd

301st: (three-hundred-) fir st (shouldn't that be 301 th ?, I'm not going there).

Of course, in general, we call all these superscripts 'ordinal indicators,' and "suffixes," 'ordinal suffixes.' (We can see that there's no suffix as such until we come to 4, as we have ordinal names.)

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