Has anyone else noticed that news agencies have switched from "nd" to "d" in things like 2nd?

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They all just up and started using 2d, 3d, etc. in their headlines at the same time. There had to have been some kind of a news media consensus on this, right?

Why? It's bloody annoying and really doesn't shrink the headlines THAT much.

Also, does anyone know where any sort of official documentation of this switch / date of when it happened?

It's just really bugging me.

― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 03:16 (twenty-one years ago)

But 2d means "two dimensional". Thats crazy!

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 03:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Exactly!
Everytime I read headlines now it confuses me for a split-second.
I'm like: "buh?"

God, I want to scratch the eyes out of whichever asshat copyeditor thought it was a good idea.

― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 03:24 (twenty-one years ago)

1t? 4h?

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 03:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I haven't seen anything with st/th yet

but I know that they've been truncating nd/rd

and I hate it

― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 04:05 (twenty-one years ago)

maybe too many people were writing "2rd" and "3nd".

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 04:15 (twenty-one years ago)

is it just me reading "2rd" as "turd"?

It is? OK then.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 05:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Are there any examples of this out there? I so don't approve of this development.

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 05:37 (twenty-one years ago)

"transitioning" they called it

― LSTD (answer) (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 06:24 (twenty-one years ago)

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