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Ordinal numbers may be written in English with numerals and letter suffixes: 1st, 2nd or 2d, 3rd or 3d, 4th, 11th, 21st, 101st, 477th, etc., with the suffix acting as an ordinal indicator. Written dates often omit the suffix, although it is nevertheless pronounced. For example: 5 November 1605 (pronounced "the fifth of November ...
In India, the 11th Grade is the first year of higher secondary education and is often considered the third year of high school (Higher/Senior Secondary School or Senior High School). It is commonly known as "Class 11" or "Plus 1" (derived from "10+1") and, in some states, as the first year of Junior College (Intermediate or Pre-University Course).
So too are the thousands, with the number of thousands followed by the word "thousand". The number one thousand may be written 1 000 or 1000 or 1,000; larger numbers are written for example 10 000 or 10,000 for ease of reading.
"Eleven" derives from the Old English ęndleofon, which is first attested in Bede's late 9th-century Ecclesiastical History of the English People. [2] [3] It has cognates in every Germanic language (for example, German elf), whose Proto-Germanic ancestor has been reconstructed as *ainalifa-, [4] from the prefix *aina-(adjectival "one") and suffix *-lifa-, of uncertain meaning. [3]
In music theory, an eleventh is a compound interval consisting of an octave plus a fourth.. A perfect eleventh spans 17 and the augmented eleventh 18 semitones, or 10 steps in a diatonic scale.
The 11th Infantry Regiment is a regiment in the United States Army. In 2007, the 11th Infantry was reflagged as the 199th Infantry Brigade, as part of the "Transformation of the US Army" effort. Today, the 11th Infantry Regiment is part of the Army's regimental system and is the primary regiment to which many Infantry School units are aligned.
1941 – Max Baucus, American lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 11th United States Ambassador to China; 1941 – J. P. Parisé, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (d. 2015) 1941 – Rogier van Otterloo, Dutch conductor and composer (d. 1988) 1941 – J. Frank Wilson, American singer-songwriter (d. 1991)
The Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition (1910–1911) is a 29-volume reference work, an edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica.It was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication.