# File lib/linguistics/en.rb, line 1355
    def ordinal( number )
        case number
        when Integer
            return number.to_s + (Nth[ number % 100 ] || Nth[ number % 10 ])

        else
            return number.to_s.sub( /(#{OrdinalSuffixes})\Z/ ) { Ordinals[$1] }
        end
    end