TIOL-DDT 2379 · Friday, 20 June 2014 · story 3 of 6

23th March - CBEC's contribution to lexicon?

YOU must have heard of 23rd March, but have you heard of 23th March? In the above notification, the Government uses the expression 23th March four times! Incidentally in the Note to the Notification, this is correctly shown as 23rd March. Is the CBEC trying to create new words in English or is it yet another example of how callously notifications are manufactured by the Board? A simple spell check would have told them the correct usage