The word "ninetieth" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the number 90 in a sequence of numbers, for example: "This is the ninetieth page of the book."
In honour of the famous meeting Brazil sent a team to Devon in to mark the ninetieth anniversary of the first meeting, again the little canaries came out on top thanks to a penalty converted by Careca.
If there's one thing the country loves better than a World War Two veteran it's a veteran who shows, in his ninetieth year, the same bolshie spirit as he did in 1945.
salaries at peer-group firms, and then peg their C.E.O.'s pay to the fiftieth, seventy-fifth, or ninetieth percentile of the peer group — never lower.
Talk story about the ninetieth birthday party of civil-rights dowager Virginia Foster Durr, on Martha's Vineyard.
When the magazine's editor, David Remnick, asked me months ago to think of ways to celebrate our ninetieth anniversary, I knew at least where to start: with the cover of the very first issue, from February of 1925, by the art editor Rea Irvin.
It was her ninetieth birthday, and a friend had brought me along.
It would be in the ninetieth percentile of the eight million brackets in ESPN's Tournament Challenge.
Then, five summers ago, in Johannesburg, I was able to see Mandela even more closely, at a fundraising reception organized by the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund and given at a school in Johannesburg, on the occasion of his ninetieth birthday.
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet On April 1st, Chris Christie, the beleaguered Republican governor of New Jersey, attended a celebrity roast, in Newark, to celebrate the ninetieth birthday of Brendan Byrne, the state's governor from 1974 to 1982.
Hidden from the public, she lingered on in the Paris house until her death, just short of her ninetieth birthday.
In my talk, I'd read snippets from the Salter correspondence, and she told me she'd thrown the party for his ninetieth birthday, six days before he died; she would have given him ten more years.
