Why Do I Say "Frankly" So Much?
Plus: one, two, three ... but first, second, third. Are all languages weird like that?
This week, Anne Giardini asks about the “similarities between the names of the first two or three numbers — i.e., one, two, three in English — and the words for first, second and third in many languages, including to some extent in English.”
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