Dec

20

Antepenultimate

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I have always liked the sound of penultimate. It is fun (and a bit pretentious) to use, but antepenultimate is even more so. In addition, although I would choose “third from last” for the item preceding the next-to-last item, I have encountered multiple people who call the item before the next-to-last one the “second-to-last” one. That gives me the excuse of using antepenultimate in order to eliminate any ambiguity.

Charlie Livingston

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