<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 10:51 AM, Paul Eggert <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eggert@cs.ucla.edu" target="_blank">eggert@cs.ucla.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">[...] I was particularly bugged by the "Nº", as the masculine ordinal indicator is a solecism here.<br>
</blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">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.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Gwillim Law<br><br></div></div>