July 29, 2015
3:33 p.m.
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 10:51 AM, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote: [...] I was particularly bugged by the "Nº", as the masculine ordinal
indicator is a solecism here.
I don't see any solecism. The superscript o is not an ordinal indicator here. Nº is not a synonym for Nth. The words that are abbreviated Nº are masculine nouns: French numéro, Spanish número, Italian numero, etc. If they were adjectives, what would they modify? Words like Decree, Bill, Journal, Law, most of them masculine in French and Spanish. Gwillim Law