The word 'eighteenth' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when speaking about dates or other ordinal numbers. For example, "My eighteenth birthday is next month."
Indeed, by one reckoning (the difference between overhauling an economic programme and starting a new one is, after all, a fine one), it will be the eighteenth time the IMF has ridden to Turkey's rescue.
James Walvin reckoned that provincial banking emerged in the eighteenth century because of the need for credit in the long-distance Atlantic slave trade.
The physiocrats, like many other thinkers of the eighteenth century, subscribed to the idea of a "natural order".
Eighteenth time lucky?Many others, not so optimistic now, saw UNMIN as an integral part of the peace process.
They remind me of the French and German nobility of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries who were against progress which was synonymous with industrialisation.
Ivan talking to his boyfriend in Skopje's old bazaar Two men living as a couple Filip (second from left) at his friend's eighteenth birthday party.
(Compare, say, life as an eighteenth-century candlemaker: have you made today's quota of candles? Then you're done).
And is the worldwide urban real-estate boom that began in eighteenth-century London at last nearing its end?)The trend towards "farming out" is also well under way, even in Japan.
The origins of physiocracy: Economic revolution and social order in eighteenth-century France.
What might Toussaint Louverture, the eighteenth-century leader of the Haitian revolution, have thought?
For MBA students of financial markets, a new paper* on lender psychology in eighteenth-century Amsterdam sheds further light on this slippery topic, by proposing that differences in personal experience are a key factor in pricing risk.
