This is a word that I think should get used more often, and I think it really fits to post today.
Penultimate: The second to last. The one before the last.
Today is the Penultimate day of 2024.
As a tag along, Antepenultimate is the third from the end, the one before the penultimate.
This word isn't often used, but also isn't entirely unknown. I think it's one of those words that we wonder if English has a word for that and never actually check because next-to-last works pretty well most of the time and is actually one letter shorter for the three words...but maybe next time you want to sound smarter or more formal or something, this might be a good word to pull out.
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