Has this ever happened to you: you have been using some word in the Ukrainian language for a long time, and then suddenly you find out that all your life you have been stressing it incorrectly Most likely, this is exactly the situation that will now happen with the word “ordinal”.

Say it mentally and pay attention to where you put the emphasis in it. Blogger and radio host Olga Bagniy will help you check whether you did everything correctly.. In her TikTok blog, she talked about a common mistake that even experienced speakers make in the word "

“If you studied chemistry at school, you know for sure that each chemical element has its own “ordinal number,” Olga came in from afar.

And she immediately continued: “But if you studied Ukrainian at school, this does not mean at all that you know the correct stress in the word “ordinal”. And then the blogger went on to explain.

In fact, dictionaries present as correct the emphasis in this adjective on the second sound o. That is, it is correct to say “order”. Such an emphasis may surprise many, but double norms are not fixed here, which means the emphasis on the sound I is considered erroneous.