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Originally Posted By: maverick
then there's preantepenultimate, and...
you can actually find this used quite a bit in discussions of stress and syllabication/syllabification.
but here's my question: preantepenultimate is often defined as 'fourth from last'; why isn't it third from the last?
ultimate: last
penultimate: next to the last
antepenultimate: second? from the last
pre~: third? from the last
unless, of course you're counting from the 'edge', as in a photo:
on the left is.. second from the left.. third from the left
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