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If I set spell, Vim seems to only recognise some ordinal numbers: 1st, 2nd, etc. are fine, but anything from 10th to 20th is apparently misspelled. Then 21st, 22nd and 23rd are fine, but then they're all misspellings until 31st...

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I'm using Vim 8.1.290.

Why is Vim so inconsistent here, and how can I fix it (ideally without adding th to my spellfile)?

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    I don't think 21-23, 31-33 are actually considered correct spellings. Put "st", "nd" or "rd" after any number and it's no longer flagged. Probably 1 through 9 are in the dictionary and that's it. Did you try adding any of the others to the dictionary? – B Layer Oct 7 '18 at 8:07
  • 31st (for instance) actually is correct though. You say "thirty-first" not "thirty-oneth". – DopeGhoti Oct 10 '18 at 22:39
  • @DopeGhoti You mean all this time that I've been saying "thirty-oneth" and "twenty-three'nd" I've been wrong? :P What I actually meant was that Vim doesn't consider them correct (or incorrect) spellings...31st and 31nd are treated equally. – B Layer Nov 2 '18 at 7:45
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This is an aspell problem; not a vim problem. aspell itself has these deficiencies. You need simply to add the missing ordinal numbers to the dictionary.

$ echo "1st 21st 31st 5th 25th 35th" | aspell -a
@(#) International Ispell Version 3.1.20 (but really Aspell 0.60.7-20110707)
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& th 50 15: Th, Thu, the, tho, thy, THC, Rh, HT, ht, H, T, h, t, nth, Ch, OH, TA, Ta, Te, Ti, Tu, Ty, ah, ch, eh, oh, pH, sh, ta, ti, to, uh, DH, NH, TB, TD, TM, TN, TV, TX, Tb, Tc, Tl, Tm, tb, tn, tr, ts, Th's, T's
& th 50 20: Th, Thu, the, tho, thy, THC, Rh, HT, ht, H, T, h, t, nth, Ch, OH, TA, Ta, Te, Ti, Tu, Ty, ah, ch, eh, oh, pH, sh, ta, ti, to, uh, DH, NH, TB, TD, TM, TN, TV, TX, Tb, Tc, Tl, Tm, tb, tn, tr, ts, Th's, T's
& th 50 25: Th, Thu, the, tho, thy, THC, Rh, HT, ht, H, T, h, t, nth, Ch, OH, TA, Ta, Te, Ti, Tu, Ty, ah, ch, eh, oh, pH, sh, ta, ti, to, uh, DH, NH, TB, TD, TM, TN, TV, TX, Tb, Tc, Tl, Tm, tb, tn, tr, ts, Th's, T's
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