So, what in the world is umpteenth?
The penultimate occasion.?ÿ May be greater than 1000.?ÿ Mother:?ÿ "Stop leaving your socks on the floor.?ÿ This is the umpteenth time I've told you.?ÿ If I have to tell you again, it will be the last thing you ever hear."
penultimate
No, not necessarily. I think it is just an arbitrary number which implies larger than the speaker thinks it should have been.
According to Merriam-Webster 40 has been spelled?ÿforty throughout the English speaking world since the 16th century.?ÿFourty?ÿis considered obsolete.
Daniel Webster dropped the extraneous U in the U.S. spelling of many English words (such as?ÿcolour). Interestingly?ÿforty was not one of these words.
English also has different pronunciations of?ÿough:
Cough
Through
Rough
penultimate
No, not necessarily. I think it is just an arbitrary number which implies larger than the speaker thinks it should have been.
I agree.?ÿ I was speaking tongue-in-cheek.?ÿ As soon as I read umpteenth I heard my dear mother's voice in my mind.
Umpteen is smaller than a kazillion.
