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Author terry.reedy
Recipients Retro, docs@python, dontknow, ezio.melotti, georg.brandl, skrah, terry.reedy
Date 2012-01-21.04:50:13
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The Chicago Manual of Style. which is perhaps the mostly widely used general style manual in the US, uses 'th' as a suffix without ' or -.
ie, 28th, etc except for 22d ('preferred' to 22nd) and 23d ('preferred' to 23rd).

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nth
gives nth, which I use, with *n*th (italic n) as alternate form (when italic is available) and n'th and n-th as 'sometimes used'. I think both of the last two are ugly and that we should use either nth or, since we can, *n*th.  I see that we already have *i*.
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2012-01-21 04:50:14terry.reedysetrecipients: + terry.reedy, georg.brandl, ezio.melotti, Retro, skrah, docs@python, dontknow
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