[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [PATCH] spelling fixes (PR#1526)

[Reinier Post <rp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 07:39:16AM -0700, Thanasis Kinias wrote:
> scripsit Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
> > Hi,
> > 
> >     Please consider applying, this is the one we're using in Conectiva
> > Linux.
> > 
> > - Arnaldo
> 
> If you're patching, I would recommend following the usage of the Chicago
> Manual of Style, which is 1st, 2d, 3d, 4th, etc.  This isn't the most
> common in popular writing, but (for American English at least) is the
> preferred style for formal writing.  

Interesting.  I don't think I've ever seen this in print.
If I would understand it at all, I'd take it as a private
invention by the author.  My vote against this.

> (The Chicago Manual of Style is the `bible' for questions like this in
> American English.  I don't know if there's an equivalent reference book
> for Commonwealth English.)

Google finds very little "3d" for "third", but it does occur.

-- 
Reinier (happy to see Dutch use 1e, 2e, 3e, 4e, ...)