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Re: [css3-fonts] ordinals

From: John Hudson <tiro@tiro.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 19:25:51 -0700
Message-ID: <522002AF.4010502@tiro.com>
CC: www-style@w3.org
On 29/08/13 5:16 PM, fantasai wrote:

> Also, just remembered -- in French ordinals are used for abbreviations
> like Mme, which has nothing to do with numbers at all.

I would say that usage is just superscript letters, not an ordinal. 
Ordinals are so called because they are used in abbreviations of ranked 
numbers in ordinal sets.


JH
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