Formatting ordinal numbers

It drives me crazy to see formatting like “10th” in people’s writing. I believe it happens because Microsoft wrongly makes superscript its default for ordinal numbers. But that’s wrong, at least according to Associated Press style, which shows the “th” suffix in regular font. I couldn’t find any well-known style guide that suggests using superscript with ordinal numbers. The Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS) generally spells out ordinal numbers, although it makes exceptions for informal communications. However, CMOS never superscripts ordinal suffixes.

You can “Turn off superscripting of ordinal numbers in Word.” Doing this removed a big source of irritation from my life.

On a related topic, see my post on “How to write calendar dates in your financial communications.”

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