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In English, the ordinal indicators indicators (first, second, third) differ from later places like fourteenth, and one hundred and eighth but periodically switch back to two hundred and third. How did this evolve from Latin with places that followed a base 10 pattern?

by /u/GiddySwine in /r/AskHistorians

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