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The word "penultimate" is correct and usable in written English
It is an adjective meaning "next to last" and is used to describe the second to last item or event in a series. For example, "This is the penultimate event of the summer festival."
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Penultimate
adjective
Next to last, second to last; immediately preceding the end of a sequence, list, etc.
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The Radio Times reported that the penultimate episode of the series, due to air on 22 March, had been replaced by a documentary about the Caribbean.
Tony Martin is a hugely experienced time triallist – but there's only one time trial, and on the penultimate stage at that.
This summer she scored the second highest grade in exams which mark the halfway point of P6, the penultimate year of primary school.
The top 10 was dominated by the BBC, with the penultimate episode of Miranda Hart'sthe sitcom Miranda seen by 6.7 million people, a 27.6% share, and the Doctor Who Christmas special seen by 6.3 million.
The captain scoops the penultimate ball away behind square for a much-needed boundary.
It's a Category 3 climb, the penultimate of this relentless day before Jenkin Road.
Atlético had been a fingertip away from winning the league on the penultimate weekend, their players departing the field with a haunted look in their eyes.
That became impossible by the time I got to the penultimate chapter and found Saint-Exupéry and his companion Prevot downed in the desert, battling against thirst and time under the merciless sun of the Sahara.
Channel 4's Supernanny managed a 2.5 million audience for the penultimate instalment from the naughty step, an 11.4% share.
On Friday, finance minister Yanis Varoufakis meets his counterparts in the Latvian capital Riga in what many analysts believe is the penultimate gathering to work out a deal before Athens's coffers run dry.
Collins's glancing header set Wales on their way and, although Coleman will have been less than impressed with the defending that saw Iceland drew level, his players fully deserved victory in the penultimate game before their Euro 2016 qualifying campaign starts.
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